Preventing Plagiarism

Learn about the great variety of ways we can prevent plagiarism in the classroom, school, or society.

What is Plagiarism?

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What is Plagiarism?

Understand the definition of plagiarism.

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Plagiarism: Facts & Stats

Basic statistics and facts about plagiarism.

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Preventing Plagiarism when Writing

Tips on avoiding accidental plagiarism while writing.

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Published August 2, 2021
Preventing Plagiarism when Writing
Tips on avoiding accidental plagiarism while writing.
Blog
Published April 3, 2018
What Are Secondary Sources?
To cite secondary sources or to not cite secondary sources?
Blog
Published March 28, 2018
5 Reasons You Shouldn't Buy from an Essay Mill
Helping students understand the risks and consequences of buying papers from essay mills.
Blog
Published December 12, 2017
How Big of a Problem is Contract Cheating?
How big of a problem are contract cheating and ghost writing in academic contexts? Bigger than you might think.
Blog
Published November 16, 2017
What Does Confidence Have to do with Plagiarism?
Confidence helps students avoid plagiarism and produce original work
Blog
Published November 16, 2017
Is It Plagiarism If My Teacher Uses My Writing?
The ways in which instructors are allowed and not allowed to use student work
Blog
Published October 27, 2017
Is Plagiarism Illegal?
Can plagiarism be illegal?
Blog
Published October 27, 2017
Is it Plagiarism to Pay Someone to Write for Me?
Paying someone to write an assignment for you is contract cheating, unethical, and does not allow you to own the work you buy.
Blog
Published October 27, 2017
How do I protect my work from being plagiarized?
Advice to students and authors on how to protect their writing against being plagiarized.
Paper
Published September 25, 2017
Benchmark Plagiarism Tariff
The results of a consultation exercise to develop a benchmark tariff for assigning penalties to cases of plagiarism.
Paper
Published September 25, 2017
Plagiarism Reference Tariff
A penalty tariff to offer guidance to institutions for assigning penalties in objective and transparent ways.
Blog
Published September 25, 2017
The Best Advice in Avoiding Plagiarism
Letting students know that they own the copyright over the writing they submit for their assignments
Blog
Published September 25, 2017
What does citation have to do with plagiarism?
Discussion on why citation helps students avoid plagiarism
Paper
Published June 13, 2017
Why My Students Don't Plagiarise:
Techniques to make it difficult and unnecessary for students to plagiarize.
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Published June 13, 2017
Streamlining Plagiarism Detection
Examining the issues of effectiveness and efficiency in plagiarism detection for electronic assessment management.
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Published June 13, 2017
Essays for sale:
Considering the possibility of making contract cheating illegal.
Paper
Published June 12, 2017
Why students cheat
An analysis of students' perspectives on cheating.
Paper
Published June 12, 2017
A Dramatic strategy against plagiarism
Developing a university-wide plagiarism prevention strategy in concert with an information literacy strategy.
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Published June 12, 2017
A Phenomenographic research project looking at HE Lecturers’ views on the plagiarism detection system Turnitin
Taking a phenomenographic approach to understand higher education instructors' perspectives on Turnitin.
Paper
Published June 12, 2017
User acceptance of Turnitin application in Pakistani HEI's
Report on user acceptance of Turnitin within Pakistan's Higher Education Institute.
Paper
Published June 12, 2017
A roll-out of the JISC plagiarism detection service with biological sciences students
Report on the roll-out of the JISC plagiarism detection service with biological sciences students.
Paper
Published June 12, 2017
Assisting students to avoid plagiarism:
Analyzing the effectiveness of formative workshops in teaching about and preventing plagiarism.
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Published June 12, 2017
Detect, Deter, and Disappear:
Report and lessons learned on a plagiarism prevention project at Bilikent University.
Paper
Published June 12, 2017
Eliminating the successor to plagiarism?
Identifying contract cheating as the successor to plagiarism.
Paper
Published June 12, 2017
Policy and practice in two academic settings:
Examining how academic policy helps shape cultures of honesty within institutions across different cultural environments.
Paper
Published June 12, 2017
Making technology work for academic integrity in Malaysia
The effects of students using Turnitin in a formative way.
Paper
Published June 12, 2017
Lessons Learnt from Running a Plagiarism Awareness Campaign
The positive results of and lessons learned from a plagiarism awareness week.
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Published June 12, 2017
Changing the Culture
Report on the Open University's efforts to institute an academic integrity policy.
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Published June 12, 2017
How effective are electronic plagiarism detection systems and does it matter how you use them?
Examining the evidence for the effects of plagiarism detection systems.
Paper
Published June 12, 2017
The effect of a penalty tariff on Consistent decision making in cases of student plagiarism
Evaluating the effectiveness of tariff penalties given to students for plagiarism and ethics violations.
Paper
Published June 12, 2017
Plagiarism Proceedings in Higher Education -
Analysis of plagiarism regulations in universities to identify needs of standardisation.
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Published June 12, 2017
Test cases for plagiarism detection software
Information on test cases used to evaluate plagiarism detection software.
Paper
Published June 12, 2017
Learning about plagiarism through information literacy:
Preventing plagiarism through information literacy.
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Published June 12, 2017
Students as consumers:
How students are participating in contract cheating market.
Paper
Published June 12, 2017
I can’t say it any better
The benefits of teaching critical reading skills to help students improve their critical writing skills.
Paper
Published June 9, 2017
Building Bridges:
The results of University of Oxford's SIPA project review of Turnitin.
Paper
Published June 9, 2017
European Responses to Student Plagiarism in Higher Education
The results of the European Commission's project assessing the impact of plagiarism policies in higher education.
Article
Published June 7, 2017
Plagiarism: Facts & Stats
Basic statistics and facts about plagiarism.
Article
Published June 7, 2017
How Do I Cite Sources?
Instructions on how to correctly cite sources in academic writing.
Article
Published June 7, 2017
What Are Footnotes?
Learn when and how to use footnotes when citing in academic writing.
Article
Published June 7, 2017
Quoting Material
Learn how to properly quote material in academic writing.
Article
Published June 7, 2017
How to Paraphrase
Learn how to paraphrase correctly.
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Published June 2, 2017
Developing Effective Academic Integrity Policies
How institutions are using academic integrity policies to guide academic conduct in the digital age.
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Published June 2, 2017
Grading the Top 100 Student Sources
Examining the top 100 online sources in student writing.
Video
Published June 2, 2017
A Tool to Enhance Information Literacy
Using IRAC to enhance information literacy and critical thinking.
Video
Published June 2, 2017
Policy, Practice and the Student Perspective
Tracey Bretag discusses the results of a project on identifying good academic practice in Australian universities.
Video
Published June 2, 2017
A 21st Century Way to Teach Plagiarism and Ethics
A gamified approach to teaching how to process ethical decisions in the professional world.
Video
Published June 2, 2017
Conning Harvard
Interview with Julie Zauzmer on her book "Conning Harvard" about Adam Wheeler's successful plagiarism.
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Published June 2, 2017
How Students Perceive Plagiarism
Discussing the results of a survey that asked students their perceptions of plagiarism.
Video
Published June 2, 2017
Creating an Academic Integrity Community
How to build a community of academic integrity on your campus.
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Published June 2, 2017
Methods for Successful Plagiarism Discussions
How to introduce plagiarism at the beginning of an undergraduate course so incoming freshmen understand it.
Video
Published June 2, 2017
What Students Don't Understand About Plagiarism
Discussion of study results on how well students understand plagiarism.
Video
Published June 2, 2017
Paying for Plagiarism
Discussion on the costs and consequences of contract cheating.
Video
Published June 2, 2017
The Sources in Student Writing
Sources students use in writing unoriginal work.
Video
Published June 2, 2017
Digital Storytelling For Student Success
Using digital storytelling to help students develop critical thinking skills and write in their own voice.
Video
Published June 2, 2017
Stemming the Tide of Plagiarism in Online Classes
How to develop online courses that reduce the chances of plagiarism and academic misconduct.
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Published June 2, 2017
Extreme Plagiarism to Contextualized Understanding
Using the pedagogy of contextualization to help students understand the risks of unoriginal writing.
Video
Published June 2, 2017
Engaging Faculty and Students to Resist Plagiarism
How to use academic integrity policies to engage students and faculty to learn how to avoid different types of plagiarism.
Video
Published June 1, 2017
Responding to Plagiarism
Lesson plans and rubrics to help teach students about plagiarism.
Video
Published June 1, 2017
Changing Culture to Promote Integrity
Defining the key drivers of the cheating culture and how to dismantle it.
Video
Published June 1, 2017
Integrity Strategies for Students
Practical strategies to build a culture of integrity on campus.
Video
Published June 1, 2017
Improvisation and Plagiarism
Promoting a culture of creativity within improvisation.
Video
Published June 1, 2017
Why Students Plagiarize
Understanding why students plagiarize.
Video
Published June 1, 2017
Helping Students Onboard with Integrity
Helping students understand proper citation and plagiarism.
Video
Published June 1, 2017
Getting the Ghostwriter Out of Your Class
Strategies to help instructors identify ghostwritten work in class.
Video
Published June 1, 2017
Understanding Plagiarism with Help from Dr. Seuss
Using Dr. Seuss to help students understand plagiarism.
Video
Published June 1, 2017
A Student-Centered Culture
Student-centered approaches to promote academic integrity.
Video
Published June 1, 2017
The Cultural Implications of Contract Cheating
How culture affects and is affected by contract cheating.
Video
Published June 1, 2017
Students and Plagiarism
Exploring the disconnect between student morals and behavior regarding plagiarism.
Video
Published June 1, 2017
Tagging Plagiarism in the Classroom
Discussion about the Plagiarism Spectrum and strategies for raising awareness.
Video
Published May 31, 2017
Plagiarism Spectrum Drill-Down
Experts discuss the top 5 most common types of plagiarism, as identified in the plagiarism spectrum.
Article
Published May 18, 2017
Citation Styles
Learn about different citation styles, and when to use them.
Article
Published May 18, 2017
What Is Citation?
Learn the definition of citation, when it's necessary, and how to do it properly.
Article
Published May 18, 2017
What is Plagiarism?
Understand the definition of plagiarism.
Article
Published May 5, 2017
Glossary
A glossary of important terms to understand in order to cite properly and avoid plagiarism.
Video
Published April 17, 2017
Fostering Plagiarism Awareness
This webinar discusses how to use Turnitin and the Plagiarism Spectrum in the classroom to help students learn academic integrity.
Video
Published April 17, 2017
What's Wrong with Wikipedia?
A webinar on how to help students evaluate the legitimacy of online sources and develop their research skills.
Video
Published April 17, 2017
Narcissism and Extrinsic Values
Jean Twenge shares her research on narcissism to help guide students towards better academic integrity.
Video
Published April 17, 2017
Stopping Plagiarism at the Source
Barry Gilmore discusses how to stop plagiarism before it happens with well-designed assignments.