Plagiarism Resource Site - General

Chicago Manual of Style now available online

Wed, 04 Oct 2006 15:35:52 -0400

The Chicago Manual of Style has gone online. A free trial is available.

Resource for compiling works cited

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:36:34 -0400

Duke University libraries have prepared a guide for creating a works cited page. See also their guides for What to cite

WSU to monitor plagiarism offenders

Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:43:15 -0500

Weber State University plans to monitor plagiarism cases to identify repeat offenders.

'Does plagiarism matter?'

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:57:39 -0500

Jonathan Wolff muses on plagiarism in The Guardian.

A short history of plagiarism

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:07:18 -0500

Stephen Moss provides a short and borrowed overview of plagiarism in The Guardian.

Kearns Goodwin redux

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:08:18 -0400

Doris Kearns Goodwin's forthcoming book provides an occasion for Boston Globe columnist to revisit her story.

Taking on plagiarism

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 16:05:31 -0400

In Slate an NYU journalism professor describes how he combats student plagiarism.

Academic dishonesty in Korea

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:32:47 -0400

"'The most serious problem in our society is a lack of awareness among school authorities of academic dishonesty,’' Oh Young-hee, a psychology professor at Duksung Women’s University in northern Seoul, said in an interview with The Korea Times."

Anti-plagiarism measures at Nebraska

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:39:00 -0400

University of Nebraska, Lincoln, has instituted several measures to counter plagiarism among students: including courses on library research and on accidental plagiarism. They will also soon pilot SafeAssignment, the plagiarism detection tool now available through BlackBoard.

Faculty plagiarism on the rise?

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 19:34:00 -0400

The CS Monitor considers the recent spat of high profile plagiarism cases among faculty: In recent years, students have been heavily prepped on the perils of plagiarism. But it turns out their teachers, in some cases, have been more lax.

Cheating @ Syracuse

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 20:24:00 -0400

Results of a recent survey of academic dishonesty at Syracuse University are "on par with national averages:" Seventy-four percent of undergraduates say they have committed at least one of the 20 forms of cheating listed on the survey, ranging from falsifying a bibliography to cheating over the shoulder of a classmate during a test. . . . One in three faculty members surveyed said they have ignored an instance of suspected cheating in their classes.

Chronicle finds four not-so-well-known plagiarists

Wed, 15 Dec 2004 14:10:00 -0500

The Chronicle offers an article on four plagiarizing professors, who aren't well-known or notorious. The point is to suggest that research plagiarism is widespread. "It's like cockroaches," says Peter Charles Hoffer, a University of Georgia historian and author of a recent book about academic fraud. "For every one you see on the kitchen floor, there are a hundred behind the stove."

"Taking plagiarism seriously"

Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:19:00 -0500

A recent editorial in the Boise State newspaper suggests that careful and conscientious citation of sources is the best way to avoid plagiarism.

Managed books

Fri, 26 Nov 2004 13:17:00 -0500

Recent admissions of inadvertent plagiarism by two prominent Harvard law professors, Charles Ogletree and Laurence Tribe, have drawn attention to a largely undiscussed aspect of plagiarism -- "the phenomenon of managed books . . . in which some academics rely on assistants to help produce books, in some cases allowing the assistants to write first drafts." See "Harvard in a Quandary" for further details.

"A plagiarism on them all"

Fri, 19 Nov 2004 11:40:00 -0500

Simon Caterson provides a thoughtful survey of the ubiquity of plagiarism in academic, literary, and popular cultures. He notes: We are living in what the American writer Hillel Schwartz has dubbed 'the culture of the copy', where virtually nothing in everyday life in the West is absolutely unique. As Schwartz dryly observes: 'Of plagiarism, little new can be written.'