TBers,

Plagiarism and academic honesty have been repeating topics at Teaching
Breakfast meetings.  Below is an updated list of web resources for faculty
and students on these important issues.  As a reminder, the College
subscribes to the Turnitin service (mentioned below).  For more information
about this service, please contact Jim Greenberg in the TLTC at x 2701.

The following information is copied from an email recently posted to the
AARP News listserv ( AARP News [mailto:[log in to unmask]].  Thanks to
Walter vom Saal for passing it along.


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The Web has made it easier to
identify and copy another's work,
and students at all levels must
understand that plagiarism is
a bad practice with potentially
dire consequences, both while
they are in school and throughout
their working career.

There are many tools now available
to help instructors spot plagiarism:

Plagiarism.org
http://news.aarp.org/UM/T.asp?A910.52851.2791.1.904318

Turnitin.com
http://news.aarp.org/UM/T.asp?A910.52851.2791.2.904318

There are also sites offering
sample policies for institutions
to help them deal with
perpetrators:

SafetyNet
http://news.aarp.org/UM/T.asp?A910.52851.2791.3.904318

2Learn.ca
http://news.aarp.org/UM/T.asp?A910.52851.2791.4.904318

UMUC
http://news.aarp.org/UM/T.asp?A910.52851.2791.5.904318

See also Webliographies
built by librarians.

Sharon Stoerger's Plagiarism:
http://news.aarp.org/UM/T.asp?A910.52851.2791.6.904318

The Electronic Plagiarism
Seminar by Gretchen Pearson:
http://news.aarp.org/UM/T.asp?A910.52851.2791.7.904318

Other excellent tools include
"Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for
Research Papers" by Robert Harris:
http://news.aarp.org/UM/T.asp?A910.52851.2791.8.904318

"Plagiarism Stoppers:
A Teacher's Guide":
http://news.aarp.org/UM/T.asp?A910.52851.2791.9.904318

and the University of Maine at
Farmington's Writing Center/Mantor
Library Anti-Plagiarism Web site:
http://news.aarp.org/UM/T.asp?A910.52851.2791.10.904318

[From Beyond ERIC: The early years:
Part three: Resources for higher
education and lifelong learning,
Searcher, 05/01/2006]

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