Web Articles

Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism (Heyward Erlich) A good (brief) essay on types of plagiarism and prevention methods. Includes links.

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies (Robert Harris) Provides a thoughtful analysis of the reasons students plagiarize and some prevention methods.

Plagiarism and the Web (Bruce Leland)

Resources for students

Plagiarism Handout from Purdue's OWL.

Purdue OWL: List of handouts on research writing.

Web Sites that detect plagiarism (for a fee)

Plagiarism.org: The home of Turnitin, a subscription service. Students submit their papers to Turnitin, which then reports to the teacher on the likelihood of plagiarism.

Plagiarism.com: Glatt Plagiarism Service. The Glatt method for plagiarism detection is to remove words (according to a formuls) from a student's paper, then challenge the student to fill in the missing words. This site sells software to to the processing.

Print Sources

Bartholome, David. "Inventing the University." In When a Writing Can't Write: Studies in Writers Block and Other Composing Process Problems ed. Mike Rose. New York: Guilford, 1985. 134-165. (frequently reprinted)

Howard, Rebeccca Moore. "Plagiarisms, Authorships, and the Academic Death Penalty." College English 57 (November 1995): 788-806.

_________. Standing in the Shadow of Giants: Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators. Stamford, CT: Ablex, 1999.

Wilhoit, Stephen. "Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism." College Teaching 42 (Fall 1994): 161-164.