Turnitin is a company that many universities and high schools are using. Students submit electronic copies of their papers; professors run the Turnitin program, which identifies sentences and paragraphs that may have been plagiarized. This can also be used to do peer editing or self-review of papers. The site also provides many resources to help students and faculty prevent plagiarism.

Tutorials

• Indiana State University Plagiarism Tutorial
• Plagiarism Court {a plagiarism avoidance tutorial; awarding-winning; flash and text versions}
• Research Ethics; includes plagiarism misconceptions; how to credit sources
• 20-Minute Interactive Flash Tutorial from San Jose State University Library [click Guest]; also has non-flash version

Tips for Recognizing and Avoiding Plagiarism

• Plagiarized.com {the instructor's guide to Internet plagiarism}; includes blog; primarily aimed at public school parents and students  
• Electronic Plagiarism Seminar {created by Gretchen Pearson, Public Services Librarian 
  Noreen Reale Falcone Library, Le Moyne College); includes detecting plagiarism; guides for educators & students; strategies for preventing plagiarism
• Cut-And-Paste Plagiarism [Univ of Ill U-C, Lisa Hinchliffe, originally published in 1998}   
  

Background Reading

• Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices {Council of Writing Program Administrators}
• Plagiarism Cases; includes links to Plagiarism in Colleges in the USA.
• Plagiarism links {including articles, links for students & faculty, case studies, detection tools}
• Student Plagiarism in an Online World, ASEE Prism Magazine - December 1998
  

Resources to Share with Your Students

• see also Tutorials section above
• Indiana State University Student Judicial Programs' University Standards, Code of Student Conduct, Section I - revised April, 2007; to be implemented Fall 2007 ACADEMIC DISHONESTY INCLUDING PLAGIARISM...; also under Computing Policies and Procedures under Ethical Usage
• Indiana State University Writing Center resources: under Resources --> Writing handouts, select Theme and Writing, then Techniques for Quoting Material; also under Research Skills [paraphrasing]; Using Your Own Words [has exercises]; Summarizing
• Writing Research Papers - Avoiding Plagiarism {OWL Online Writing Lab,  Purdue University} includes Is It Plagiarism Yet; "Safe Practices"; . Practice exercises
• Examples of Word-for-word and Paraphrasing [5 each]
• Practice with Feedback [10 items]
• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It {Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University} includes acceptable/unacceptable paraphrasing; common knowledge
• I'm writing my first paper. What do I need to know? - How Not to Plagiarize http://www.utoronto.ca/writing/plagsep.html {Writing Support at the University of Toronto} short essay
• Plagiarism --and how to avoid it! {Drew University}; contains examples of  original wording, followed by the misuse factor, with comments; includes MLA format examples

Thanks to Pace University Library's Plagiarism Facts for Faculty and Students  

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