One student has been expelled, and more than 100 cases of plagiarism remain to be resolved at the University of Virginia after a physics professor used a computer program to catch students who turned in duplicate papers, or portions of papers that appeared to have been copied.
Term paper websites are proliferating and making a lot of money. Digital tools and services have been created to catch the cheaters who use the purchased papers or who cut and paste from various internet sites.
A handout designed to help writers develop strategies for knowing how to avoid accidental plagiarism.
Answers common questions that college students may have on the subject and confronts some of their excuses for not giving proper credit to their sources.
A tutorial with many examples, practice questions with feedback, and a test.
Detection software will search 800 million websites to stop students plagiarising from the internet.
What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It. From Indiana University Writing Resources page.
A group of students accused of sharing "programming solutions" by email now face fines or expulsion.
Definitions of plagiarism from the American Historical Association, Modern Language Association, and the American Psychological Association.
A list of Internet term paper and essay sites was compiled as part of a Teaching Effectiveness Seminar on cheating, plagiarism and Internet paper mills.
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