Plagiarism Resources for Faculty

Materials for Classroom Discussion & Teaching: Web Audios & Videos | Activity Sheets | Online Quizzes and Self-Tests
General Information: Background | Paper Mills | Plagiarism Detection Services

Authorship & Plagiarism Quiz, http://camellia.shc.edu/literacy/tablesversion/quizzes/quiz7.htm - 5 questions, gives immediate feedback for each question

Citation Practice: Crediting Your Sources, http://library.albany.edu/usered/plagiarism/page8.html - 5 questions, focuses on plagiarism without discussing copyright

Honor System/Plagiarism Self-Test, http://ebbs.english.vt.edu/cgi-bin/quiz/quiz.cgi?file=selftest  - 20 questions  

Is This Plagiarism? http://www.lib.umb.edu/webtutorial/module6/Module6-2b-Q1.html - also uses sample texts  

Plagiarism & Copyright Quiz, http://smccd.net/accounts/karas/english/copyquiz.html - 10 questions, feedback at the end of the entire quiz  

Plagiarism-by-Paraphrase Risk Quiz, http://faculty.goucher.edu/writingprogram/sgarrett/ - takes a disciplinary approach (literary criticism, science/biology, social science/anthropology, economics, and history) approach to determining whether given texts are plagiarized

Plagiarism Quiz, http://www.cas.usf.edu/elistudents/elicloze3.html - students fill in the blanks in a paragraph about plagiarism with words given to them to demonstrate their understanding of plagiarism

Self-Test: Identifying and Avoiding Plagiarism, http://ec.hku.hk/plagiarism/self_test.htm - includes 5 samples of student work, asks whether they are plagiarism; immediate feedback

So You Think You Know What Plagiarism Is, http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Einstruct/plag/pretest.htm - 10 questions, with an accompanying tutorial

What Is Plagiarism at Indiana University, http://education.indiana.edu/~frick/plagiarism/item1.html - presents samples of student work along with original sources and asks users to judge whether the uses are plagiarism

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, University of Albany – http://www.albany.edy/cetl/resources/pedagogy/plagiarism.htm

Electronic Plagiarism Seminar , http://www.lemoyne.edu/library/plagiarism.htm

Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism, http://www.umuc.edu/ugp/ewp/plagiarism.html 

Non-Deliberate Plagiarism Project, http://education.qut.edu.au/tesol/ndp/manifestations.html  - geared to TESOL; includes case studies & examples

Online Paper Mills and Plagiarism: Has the Web Changed Cheating, http://library.shastacollege.edu/papermills.htm 

Plagiarism , http://www.web-miner.com/plagiarism

Plagiarism: Definitions, Examples and Penalties, http://www.chem.uky.edu/courses/common/plagiarism.html

Plagiarism: Exploring the Issues, http://www.stmarys.ca/administration/library/plagbiblio.html

Plagiarism in Colleges in the USA , http://www.rbs2.com/plag.htm

Plagiarism in Cyberspace, http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/lboyer/plagiarism/plagiarism3bibliog.htm 

Plagiarism: Keeping up with the Cheats, http://vm.robcol.k12.tr/~jroyce/plagbibl2.html#papers 

Plagiarism Stopped: A Teacher’s Guide, http://www.ncusd203.org/central/html/where/plagiarism_stoppers.html 

Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It , http://www.indiana.edu/~wts/wts/plagiarism.htm

Purdue Online Writing Lab , http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/rsearch/r_plagiar.html

Southern University of Illinois-Carbondale Department of History’s Statements on Plagiarism , http://www.siu.edu/~histsiu/Plagiarism.html

A1 Term Paper, http://a1-termpaper.com - offers pre-written and custom written term papers; has about 20,000 pre-written papers; prices from $50-100 for a pre-written 8-10 page paper

Anti Essays, http://www.antiessays.com - offers free essays

BigNerds.com,  http://bignerds.com - has a selection of free papers; links to EssayPage (http://www.essaypage.com/) which offers papers for sale; also has a custom writing service ($19.95/page with a free bibliography)

Cheathouse.com, http://www.cheathouse.com - "thousands of free essays in over 130 categories"

Chuck III’s College Resources,  http://www.chuckiii.com - offers 30,000 free essays as well as a custom term paper option (priced from $17-38/page); links to Direct Essays (http://www.directessays.com) which offers 100,000 papers for sale

College Term Papers, http://collegetermpapers.com - selection of free term papers along with a custom writing service (priced from $17-38/page) 

Genius Papers for Sale, http://www.geniuspapers.com - claims to have over 100,000 papers available (free or fee); users need a $19.95 subscription to access the site's content

School Sucks!, http://www.schoolsucks.com - offers papers for sale through the Paper Store (http://www.paperstore.net)  

Term Paper sites.com, http://www.termpapersites.com - offers 80,000 papers through links to other major (free and fee) sites

Much plagiarism can be detected by using general Web search engines (Google, AltaVista, etc.), as well as full-text Library resources (InfoTrac Expanded Academic ASAP, NetLibrary, Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, WilsonSelect, etc.)

Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You , http://www.coastal.edu/library/papermil.htm - information about paper mills and plagiarism detection

Cyberplagiarism Detection and Prevention , http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/cyberplag - also includes information about paper mills and plagiarism detection

EduTie.com , http://www.edutie.com - searchable database of 250,000 papers; fee-based service, with free trials

Essay Verification Engine (Eve2) , http://www.canexus.com/eve/index.shtml - one-time fee-based service with free updates; teachers can request a free 15-day trial

Glatt Plagiarism Services, Inc., http://www.plagiarism.com - fee-based service

JPlag , http://www.jplag.de - free with an account, examines software programming, as well as texts, for plagiarism

MOSS (Measure of Software Similarity) , http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/moss.html - free for instructors of programming classes

Plagiarism.org , http://www.plagiarism.org - relies on database from Turnitin; fee-based, but offers free trial

PlagiServ , http://www.plagiserv.com - database of 70,000 papers; free service

Turnitin.com , http://www.turnitin.com - fee-based service with free trials

WordChecksystems , http://www.wordchecksystems.com - fee-based service; institutions can get site licenses

Created by Kate Manuel
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Page past updated: Monday, July 21, 2003