Plagiarism: Prevention & Response

• Rebecca Moore Howard. "Forget About Policing Plagiarism. Just Teach." Chronicle of Higher Education. 16 November 2001, 24.
• Abigail Lipson and Sheila M. Reindl. "The Responsible Plagiarist: Understanding Students Who Misuse Sources." About Campus. July-August 2003, 7-14.
• "Ten Principles of Academic Integrity for Faculty." Change. May/June 2004, 12-15.

Lawrence University Honor System

• Information for Faculty and Instructors from the Student Affairs Office, Duke University
• Donald L. McCabe and Gary Pavela. "Ten [Updated] Principles of Academic Integrity." Change. May/June 2004, 10-15.

Teaching about citation

• Academic Citation and Writing: a guide from the Lawrence librarians
• Citing Electronic Documents: also from the Lawrence librarians
• Avoiding Plagiarism from the Duke University Libraries and the Duke University Writing Program

Citation tools

• RefWorks: a web-based citation manager provided by the library, similar in many ways to EndNote or ProCite.  Our subscription to RefWorks lets you create a database of your research.  Bibliographies can be drafted from the entries in your RefWorks database in AAA, ACS, APA, Chicago, and MLA style, plus dozens of formats for publication in specific journals.
• KnightCite:a product of Hekman Library at Calvin College.   KnightCite drafts individual citations for a variety of print and electronic formats in MLA, APA, and Chicago style.

Assignment design

• Assignment Design: from the librarians
• Arthur Sterngold "Confronting Plagiarism." Change. May/June 2004, 16-21.
• "Preventing Plagiarism in Research Papers." Change. May/June 2004, 18-20.
• Designing Assignments that Foster Academic Integrity: part of York University's pages on Academic Integrity for Faculty.

Identify web plagiarism using Google.

• Search distinctive words or phrases.
  • Search up to 10 terms (Google won't search more than this).
  • Use quotation marks "" around phrases.
  • If you can't pull up a page, use the link to see the cached page.
  • To search Wikipedia for words or phrases from Google, include the expression site:wikipedia.org as part of your search
• Limitations:
  • You may find results from term paper sites that charge, but you won't be able to read the papers without paying. It may not be worth it.
  • You will not be searching all of the web.
  • You will not be searching proprietary databases, including the full text databases we subscribe to through the library.

Identify plagiarism from subscription databases including these examples:

• EBSCOhost: contains a wide variety of databases with broad and specialized coverage of academic and general periodicals. Includes full-text for over thousands of titles. Most full text articles will date from the early 1990's to the very near present.  You can search one or more databases at a time from the EBSCOhost platform.
• Academic OneFile: also has both academic and popular titles. As with EBSCOhost, most articles date from the early 1990's to near present.
• In any of the library's databases, use the Advanced Search feature if one is available.
  • The default search generally is a keyword search of titles, authors, and subject headings for articles. Use the pull-down search features to be sure that you are searching the full text.
  • Search for distinctive words or phrases.
  • If you are not searching for a phrase, be sure to include the word and between individual terms.
• Limitations:
  • Most full text databases will not include articles published before the early 1990's.
  • PDF files are a special issue.  You can't search the PDFs available on most full text databases from the search page (JSTOR is the exception) but on the bright side, often PDF text can't be copied and pasted into a document.