Avoiding Plagiarism

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
Background information and practical strategies for fighting plagiarism.

Beware of Plagiarism
This document presents text from a source and examples of plagiarism from that source. Requires Adobe Reader or compatible application for access.

Citation
Links to online citation tools.

Lesson Plans: Copyright
A collection of links for high school and middle school students on avoiding plagiarism.

Making Plagiarism-Proof Assignments
Three approaches that will encourage academic integrity and good practice.

Plagiarism.org
This site offers teachers extensive support into preventing plagiarism, including insights into why students plagiarize, explanations of copyright, and links to printable handouts.

Plagiarism: How to Avoid It
This page emphasizes avoiding plagiarism by careful, correct citation.

Plagiarism Checker
Are you suspicious about a passage in a student paper? Use this tool to check whether it has been plagiarized from a Web source.

Plagiarism Detect
Student Jeffrey Smith devised this resource to help him avoid plagiarism in his own work. Now he is sharing it with students everywhere at no charge. When they finish writing a paper, students submit to his site before submitting to you. It picks up passages plagiarized from the Web.

Plagiarism — Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Quotations
The 4 handouts at this page introduce students to note-taking. The "Is this plagiarism?" activity helps students determine how to attribute information.

Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
A discussion of what constitutes plagiarism, examples, and strategies to avoid it.

Thinking and Talking about Plagiarism
This page emphasizes what instructors can do to prevent plagiarism.

A Way with Words: Exploring Unintentional Plagiarism
"In this lesson, students will examine the case of a particular author accused of stealing another author's work. They then create plagiarized pieces of work and reflect on the writing process."