Plagiarism Resource Site

University of Edinburgh tests JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service.

CBB hosted a one-day seminar, "Engaging Plagiarism: Theory and Practice," at Bowdoin College on 5 Mar 04. Links to Rebecca Moore Howard's and Chris Anson's presentations are now available. See the seminar's program for further details.

The University of Utah is considering subscribing to Turnitin. The license would cost in the neighborhood if $15,000.

Microsoft lifts text from Google in a description of its own search engine, MSNBot. See MemoryBlog for the details.

Citing Donald McCabe's survey, U of New Mexico sees local and national increase in plagiarism. Mercury News in turn reports that it's not clear if more people are cheating or more people are getting caught. U of Washington notes a drop in plagiarism cases. Faculty there emphasize instruction to discourage inadvertent plagiarism.

Alexander Berezin dismisses Turnitin as a typically American newfangled gimmick in an opinion letter in the CAUT Online.

Lee Dunn, Chris Morgan, Sharon Parry, and Meg O'Reilly, in The Student Assessment Handbook: New Directions in Traditional and Online Assessment (Routledge Falmer, 2004), include a discussion of plagiarism. For a brief notice, see news.com.au

The Globe and Mail reviews the problem of student plagiarism and cites two largely overlooked points: plagiarism detection services are pursued as cost effective alternatives to hiring more teachers or teaching assistants; and plagiarism is an outgrowth of the increasing tendency to view education as a service industry.

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Seri Rudolph has drawn on various online resources in developing a set of strategies and suggestions for creating plagiarism resistant assignments in science courses. For a list of those resources, see below

General strategies for the Classroom

More on this topic can be found at some of the web sites listed at the end of this document

1. Go ahead and talk about it. Faculty may disagree about what constitutes plagiarism, so your students need to hear it from you.
http://www.kirkwood.edu/wac/tips/minimizing_plagiarism.htm

Contrary to most accounts of student plagiarism, MIT reports that cases of academic dishonesty on campus have remained consistent over the years.