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Plagiarism

"Plagiarism is the use of another person's ideas or work without proper acknowledgement" (DA to Z, p. 6). According to the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6 ed., there are two types of wrongs relating to plagiarism:

• Using another person's ideas, information, or expressions without acknowledging that person's work (intellectual theft)
• Passing off another person's ideas, information, or expressions as your own (fraud)

Plagiarism also exists if a student receives outside help, such as proofreading or editing, from parents, proctors, tutors, classmates or others without acknowledging it.

Students must receive a zero grade for any assignment in which plagiarism occurs.

Help Your Students Avoid Plagiarism

• Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: The WPA Statement on Best Practices (Council of Writing Program Administrators)
• Preventing Academic Dishonesty (from Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis)
• Plagiarism Information for Faculty (U. of Connecticut)
• Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers (Robert Harris, author)
• Discouraging Plagiarism (Indiana U.)
• Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue U.)
• Preventing Plagiarism (U. of Alberta)
• Plagiarism: Some Sources on Attitudes, Definitions, and Detection Methods (Syracuse U.)

Detecting Plagiarism

• Student Plagiarism in an Online World (ASEE Prism Magazine)
• Signals of Possible Plagiarism in Written Work (U. of Michigan)
• Detecting Plagiarism (U. of Alberta)
• Plagiarism Detection Services (U. of Michigan)

Plagiarism Tutorials and Quizzes

• Road Etiquette: Plagiarism (tutorial with exercises)(UCLA)
• Plagiarism Quiz (Empire State College)
• What is Plagiarism?
• Academic Honesty Quiz (U. of Manitoba)

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