Towson University's Student Academic Integrity Policy
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Resources
for Students
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Plagiarism:
What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It [Indiana
University, Bloomington]
- Brief overview with examples
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Avoiding Plagiarism [Owl: Purdue Writing Lab]
- Includes overview, safe practices, and exercises
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How Not to Plagiarize [University of Toronto]
- When
is it necessary to credit your sources? This Web page gives some clear
examples that will help you answer that question.
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Academic
Integrity Tutorial
[York
University, Canada]
- Do
you know plagiarism when you see it? Test your detective skills with this tutorial.
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Academic Integrity: Resources for Students [University of Michigan Library]
- Overview, exercises, citing, research habits & strategies
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Resources For Faculty
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Plagiarism:
What Should a Teacher Do?
- Rebecca
Moore Howard discusses different "textual phenomena" presented
in student papers, which she thinks should be labelled more specifically
than lumping them together under plagiarism. She considers these instances
rather as being "fraud, patchwriting, failure to cite, and failure
to quote."
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Preventing Academic Dishonesty [ From Tools for Teaching/ Barbara Gross Davis]
- Includes information on general strategies, plagiarism, research papers, exam questions, and administration of tests
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VAIL: Virtual Academic Integrity Laboratory [University
of Maryland University College]
- This site provides tutorials and guides for encouraging academic honesty, including sections for student and for faculty
- Check under Guides for information such as Preventing Academic Dishonesty and Designing Assignments, which covers best practices for creating assignments that encourage academic honesty and Plagiarism Alarms!, which provides tips for identifying plagiarism in student writing
- Also provides Tutorials on avoiding plagiarism and copyright ownership
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Guide to
Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism [University of Alberta Libraries]
- Provides information and resources on what faculty can do to prevent, detect, and report plagiarism
- Presents
a comprehensive overview of the reasons why students plagiarize
- Also includes a section on resources for students
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Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers [Virtual Salt]
- Covers strategies of awareness, prevention, and detection for faculty
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Yahoo's List of Research Paper Companies
- Links
to services that sell term papers.
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Resources
for Faculty Teaching Online
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Thomas, D. (2005, May 12).
Encouraging academic honesty toolkit. Center for Faculty Development.
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center. Retrieved
August 4, 2010, from http://www.ucdenver.edu/faculty_staff/faculty/center-for-faculty-development/Documents/academic_honesty.pdf
- Why
students cheat and techniques for prevention and detection
- Extensive
discussion of the importance of academic integrity policy/code with
the students. Specific suggestions regarding grading, tests, clear
expectations, citing, and how to handle instances of cheating
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Christie, B. (2003). Designing
online courses to discourage dishonesty. Educause Quartery,
4. Retrieved August 4, 2010, from http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/eqm0348.pdf
- Based
on the premise that the best way to encourage academic honesty is
to plan a course thoughtfully
- Offers suggestions regarding syllabus
design, presentation of content, the student/instructor relationship,
assessment/test design, and techniques for monitoring student behavior
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Krsak, A.M. (2007). Curbing academic dishonesty in online courses. In C. P. Ho (Ed.) Voyaging into a new era. Proceedings of the 12th Annual Technology, Community & Colleges Worldwide Online Conference. Retrieved August 4, 2010, from http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.135.3623
- Click on CACHED icon to retrieve the document
- Provides a review of the literature and strategies for designing online courses that minimize academic dishonesty
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McNett, M. (2005). Making
an online course plagiarism resistant. Virtual Guest Lectures.
Illinois Online Network. Retrieved from http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/courses/instructors/guestlectures/mcnett/index.asp
- Focus
on assignment design that addresses time management, a major cause
of plagiarism and allows the instructor to track a student's progress
- Each class assignment represents a step in the research process that
culminates in a final project
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Olt, M.R. (2002, Fall). Ethics
and distance education: Strategies for minimizing academic dishonesty
in online assessment. Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration,
5(3). Retrieved from http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/fall53/olt53.html
- Discussion
of four strategies that help to keep incidences of academic dishonesty
at a minimum
- Includes: recognizing potential problems and creating
an environment that encourages and rewards academic honesty; designing
effective and creative assignments; modifying assignments frequently;
and clarifying expectations by discussing academic integrity policy
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| Additional Resources for use in online settings:
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Alt, J., Kenkel, C., & Lim, C.L. (2005). Deterrents to online academic dishonesty. Journal of Learning in Higher Education, 1(1), 17-22. Retrieved from http://jwpress.com/JLHE/JLHE-OnLineIssues.htm |
Ercogovac, A., & Richardson, J.V. Jr. (2004). Academic dishonesty, plagiarism included, in the digital age: A literature review. College & Research Libraries, 65(4), 301-318. Retrieved from http://crl.acrl.org/content/65/4/301.full.pdf |
Kelley, K.B., & Bonner K. (2005). Digital text, distance education and academic dishonesty: Faculty and administrator perceptions and responses. Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, 9(1), 43-52. Available from http://www.msmc.la.edu/include/learning_resources/online_course_environment/online_teaching/v9n1_dishonesty.pdf |
McNabb, L., & Olmstead, A. (2009). Communities of integrity in online courses: Faculty member beliefs and strategies. MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 5(2). Retrieved from http://jolt.merlot.org/vol5no2/mcnabb_0609.htm |
Roberts, T. (Ed.) (2008). Student plagiarism in an online world [EBSCO eBook Collection]. Available from http://web.ebscohost.com
- Requires login with TU NetID
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Varvel, E.V. (2005). Honesty
in online education. Pointers & Clickers, 6(1). Illinois
Online Network. Retrieved from
http://www.ion.uillinois.edu/resources/pointersclickers/2005_01/VarvelCheatPoint2005.pdf
Outlines
reasons for cheating and strategies for promoting honesty including
specific examples for educating students about cheating, providing
technical and research support, building community, practicing good
pedagogy, and creating effective assessments, both tests and assignments.
Offers tips for detecting plagiarism.
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Programs
for Detecting Plagiarism
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SafeAssign
- Plagiarism software program available to TU faculty through Blackboard, which allows faculty to create assignments that require students to submit papers which are checked against the Internet, ProQuest ABI/Inform database, Institutional document archives and a Global Reference Database
- Check the OTS Self-Help Center, under Creating Assessments for guides using SafeAssign including: Create a SafeAssignment, Using SafeAssign, Grade a Plagiarism Prevention Assignment, and Understanding a SafeAssign Report
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| Additional Reading |
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Resources: Plagiarism and Academic Integrity [New York Times Learning Network]
- A collection
of lesson plans, student opinion questions, recent related NYT articles, link to Times topic page on plagiarism, and resources around the web
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