Joanne Prettyman

SLM 521

Elective #9 – Plagiarism

This page is designed to help teachers help themselves! This information is taken from Indiana University’s website on Writing Tutorial Services. Use the following to define plagiarism – to yourselves and to your students; as well as, identifying plagiaristic attempt by students. We are all busy – too busy to attempt to identify every text or website a student states that he/she visited – use this site as one of your own tools for grading.

What is PLAGIARISM?

Plagiarism is using others’ ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information. Use the link above to further investigate…

How to recognize acceptable and unacceptable phrases…

How to recognize plagiarism and the “www…”

Some strategies for avoiding plagiarism…

"Instructional Support Services." Writing Tutorial Services. 27 April 2004. Indiana University. 13 Jun. 2005 <http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ewts/pamphlets/plagiarism.shtml#original>.

Let’s discuss this dirty word…PLAGIARISM…

According to “Eye on Cheaters…” in “Current Events” issue January 9, 2004, Daniel McCabe, who conducted a Rutgers’s University study on plagiarism, states:

"The Internet makes plagiarism very simple. It also ... makes it anonymous. You can ... do it in the privacy of your own room. You don't have to go to the library and sit there ... copying out passages that somebody might detect," he told CNN.

"It's not just students copying from one another anymore," said Brother Rene Sterner, president of La Salle College High School, a private boys' school in Philadelphia. "Students have access to thousands and thousands of papers and projects on the Internet that they can pop off as their own," he said.

In-class cheating has also gone high-tech. Experts say students who cheat aren't just scribbling tiny crib sheets anymore. They're using their cellphones to instant message questions and answers or storing notes on their graphing calculators.

McCabe also thinks an erosion of values and cheating and corruption by high-profile adults are to blame. "I think kids today are looking to adults ... for a moral compass, and when they see the behavior occurring there, they don't understand why they should be held to a higher standard," he explained.

"Eye on Cheaters...." Find Articles. 09 June 2004. Current Events. 13 Jun. 2005 <http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EPF/is_15_103/ai_112354637>.

So what do we as educators do about the rising and alarming rate of plagiarism in our schools and colleges? What can we do to stop it? I propose no wonderful enlightening cures to this evil illness – only that we teachers vigilantly fight plagiarism at a “grass roots” level and start making our students accountable for their actions. Whether is means being booted out of the National Honor Society, not speaking at graduation, or accepting an “F” in a course – we need to enforce whatever rules we set forth and we need to ensure that our students abide by those rules and understand the penalties of breaking those rules.

Sites to use as DETECTION tools…

School Sucks - http://www.schoolsucks.com/

Cyber Essays - http://www.cyberessays.com/

Free Essay - http://www.freeessay.com/

Paper Masters Term Papers - http://www.papermasters.com/

Paper Writers - http://www.paperwriters.com/intro.htm

Turn it in - http://turnitin.com/static/home.html

Eve 2 Plagiarism Detection Machine - http://turnitin.com/static/home.html

Sparks Notes - http://sparknotes.com/

Pink Monkey Cliffs Notes - http://www.pinkmonkey.com/