Preventing & Detecting Plagiarism

Student Resources:

APOLLO: A Pace Online Library Literacy Orientation Unit Six of Pace's online research tutorial focuses on citing information using appropriate guidelines such as MLA and APA, and recognizing and avoiding plagiarism.
Plagiarism 101: How to Write Term Papers Without Being Sucked into the Black Hole From SUNY Albany.
I'm writing my first paper. What do I need to know? - How Not to Plagiarize From Writing Support at the University of Toronto.
Plagiarism --and how to avoid it! From Drew University.
Writing Research Papers - Avoiding Plagiarism From OWL (Online Writing Lab) from Purdue University Writing Lab.

EVE, the Essay Verification Engine A commercial detection product. A trial of the software can be downloaded and used for 15 days.
Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc. Glatt sells three different plagiarism software resources, the first is a tutorial students use to learn about plagiarism, the second is detection software which looks for plagiarism in a file, and the third, a self-detection program that helps a writer avoid inadvertent plagiarism. The detection tool uses the student's own writing style to detect possibly plagiarism.
Moss (for a measure of software similarity) From the web site: "Moss (for a Measure Of Software Similarity) is an automatic system for determining the similarity of C, C++, Java, Pascal, Ada, ML, Lisp, or Scheme programs. To date, the main application of Moss has been in detecting plagiarism in programming classes."
Turnitin.com A web-based commercial detection service, which provides for a one-month free trial. Now integrated with Blackboard. Contact CTLT for more information.