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PLAGIARISM AWARENESS

Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices
The Council of Writing Program Administrators is a national association of college and university faculty with professional responsibilities for (or interests in) directing writing programs. Members include directors of freshman composition, undergraduate writing, WAC/WID/CAC, and writing centers, as well as department chairs, division heads, and deans. This group has recently published a position statement on plagiarism.
http://www.wpacouncil.org/node/9

Plagiarism: What it is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
The information for this site is taken from the "Student Code of Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct" handbook at Indiana University-Bloomington. It provides students with information and strategies for avoiding plagiarism with examples of proper paraphrasing.
http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml

Purdue Online Writing Lab
This site presents information on avoiding plagiarism and shows circumstances when documentation is necessary. It also provides a plagiarism exercise for students and shows a graph of deliberate plagiarism and possible accidental plagiarism.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html

Talking About Plagiarism: A Syllabus Strategy for Talking About Plagiarism with Students
A site that provides a description of suitable language, which faculty can include in their syllabus to make students understand what plagiarism is and emphasize good writing skills. It also gives teachers permission to use any of the content to create their own syllabi.
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/technotes/workshops/talkingplagy.htm

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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND HONOR CODES

Center for Academic Integrity (CIA)
Affiliated with the Keenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University, CAI promotes academic integrity among its members. It currently has a consortium of over 320 institutions and provides a list of colleges and universities with honor codes. CAI provides both institutional and individual membership for a fee.
http://www.academicintegrity.org/

Academic Integrity, Faculty Responsibilities (Rutgers University)
Offers some useful suggestions on strategies for preventing cheating.
http://teachx.rutgers.edu/integrity/faculty.html#fostering

Plagiarism & Academic Integrity at Rutgers University
Also from Rutgers, this is a unique interactive media presentation on plagiarism.
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/douglass/sal/plagiarism/intro.html

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PLAGIARISM PREVENTION AND DETECTION RESOURCES AND SOFTWARE

Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You.
This is an abbreviated version of the Teaching Effectiveness Seminar, presented by Margaret Fain and Peggy Bates of the Kimbel Library at the Coastal Carolina University, held March 5, 1999, and revised on March 10, 2003. This seminar's objective was to help faculty deal with classroom plagiarism. Other topics included Internet subject specific paper mills, detecting plagiarism, and detecting plagiarized papers.
http://www.coastal.edu/library/presentations/papermil.html

Cyberplagiarism: Detection and Prevention
This resource is available at the Teaching and Learning with Technology site at Penn State. It presents a basic definition of plagiarism and a list of articles on plagiarism culled from local and national papers. It also presents possible causes of plagiarism, detection strategies, and tools and signs to warn the instructor about possible plagiarism; it also discusses Penn State's policies on academic integrity and plagiarism and allows professors to create plagiarism quizzes to test students' knowledge of plagiarism.
http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/cyberplag/

Fee-based detection services:

     Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc.
     http://www.plagiarism.com.

     Plagiarism.org and its affiliate Turnitin.com
     http://www.plagiarism.org.
     http://www.turnitin.com.

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SEMINARS, WORKSHOPS, AND COMPREHENSIVE DOCUMENTS

Electronic Plagiarism Seminar
This very detailed document was prepared by Gretchen Pearson, public services librarian at the Noreen Reale Falcone at Le Moyne College. Pearson starts by looking at media coverage of the issue of plagiarism and has links to some plagiarism detection tools. She presents definitions of key terms relating to plagiarism, including copyright, intellectual property, and data. Pearson outlines some strategies for preventing and detecting plagiarism, provides links to guides for educators and students, and examines sites that provide both free and fee-based term papers. She also provides links to articles on plagiarism, anti-plagiarism, and plagiarism prevention and detection.
http://www.lemoyne.edu/library/plagiarism/index.htm

Plagiarism
This excellent and very detailed document was prepared by Sharon Stoerger, a librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She looks at articles on copyright and intellectual freedom for instructors and students, and she discusses and provides links to plagiarism case studies, plagiarism detection tools, and term paper sites. Her paper provides a comprehensive and thorough examination of plagiarism.
http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism

Plagiarism in Colleges in USA
Ronald B. Standler, an attorney and a consultant, prepared this comprehensive document, which is an examination of plagiarism from the legal standpoint. Topics discussed include plagiarism, law of plagiarism, copyright law, trademark law, fraud, and statutes about the sale of term papers. He also presents cases involving plagiarism in colleges, cases against commercial institutions, legal action against people who report plagiarism, and provides links to other excellent resources on plagiarism.
http://www.rbs2.com/plag.htm

Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World
An online book at:
http://0-www.netlibrary.com.helin.uri.edu/ebook_info.asp?product_id=5615

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SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY POLICIES AND PROCEDURES

Registrar Office -- Academic Honor Code
All students are expected to accept and abide by the values of honesty, integrity, and truthfulness in their academic pursuits. Sanctions for violations of academic honesty, such as plagiarism or cheating, are imposed by the course instructor and range from failure for the work involved to failure in the course. A record of violations and sanctions is maintained in the student's file. Repeated violations can result in dismissal from the university. Appeal is to the Vice President for Academic Affairs or the Vice President's designee.
http://www.salve.edu/offices/registrar/index.cfm#11

Student Handbook -- Academic Dishonesty
http://library.salve.edu/pdf/plagiarism.pdf

The Office of Information Technologies -- Computer and Network Use Policy
See sections on Intellectual Property and Plagiarism
http://www.salve.edu/offices/HR/handbooks/index.cfm#67