Websites

Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You -- Coastal Carolina University's Teaching Effectiveness Seminar
(used with permission):

Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You. The webpage for this March 5, 1999 workshop.

Easy Steps to Combat Plagiarism.  Seven suggestions from C. C. U.'s Kimbel Library.

Detecting Plagiarized Papers.  Thirteen clues to watch for.  Sources.  A bibliography on term paper mills.  

Plagiarism and the Web.  Advice on combatting e-cheating.

Plagiarism.org  An online plagiarism detection service.  Subscription required.
             ...and a cautionary essay on the Plagiarism.org service.Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers

Plagiarism: A cultural aspect.  Are all customs and perspectives on this topic the same?

Checking for Cheating Electronically

Plagiarism.org  An online plagiarism detection service.  Subscription required.

Plagiarism.com  Plagiarism detection and screening software for sale.

NOTE that questionable sentences or paragraphs may possibly be searched in general Web
            search engines, too.  Plagiarism will only be detected, though, if the original
            source is a readily available Web page, and not "subscription protected."

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Some "Paper Mills:"

A1-Termpaper	ACI Writing Assistance Center	CheatHouse
Phuckschool		Academic Term Papers
School Sucks		Research Papers Online

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  Articles & Essays

Dehnart, A. (1999). The web's plagiarism police: An online service claims it
            can identify purloined papers, so why'd it nail my thesis? [On-line]. Available:
           http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/06/14/plagiarism/print.html
Drogemuller, R. (1997). Designing cyber-assignments. Australian Science Teachers
           Journal, 43(4), 42-44. (From [MasterFILE Premier]: EBSCO Publishing
            [Producer and Distributor].) Retrieved October 28, 1999 from the World
            Wide Web: http://www.epnet.com/cgi-bin/EBSCOLOGIN [Nonworking Link]
Grubaugh, S. J., Speaker, Jr., R. B., & Tanner, M. L. (1996). Writer's cloze
            performance: Detecting plagiarism at four grade levels. Reading Improvement,
           33 (Summer 1996), 66-75. (From [Education Abstracts F/T 6/83-11/99]:  H.
            W. Wilson [Producer and Distributor].) Retrieved October 28, 1999 from the
            World Wide Web: http://wilsonweb2.hwwilson.com/autologin **
Harris, R. (1999). Anti-plagiarism strategies for research papers  [On-line]. Available:
           http://www.sccu.edu/faculty/R_Harris/antiplag.htm [Link may not work.]
Malouff, J. M., & Sims, R. L. (1996). Applying an employee-motivation model to
            prevent student plagiarism. Journal of Education for Business, 72 (September/
            October 1996), 58-61. (From [Education Abstracts F/T 6/83-11/99]:  H. W.
            Wilson [Producer and Distributor].) Retrieved October 28, 1999 from the
            World Wide Web: http://wilsonweb2.hwwilson.com/autologin **
McHenry, W. K. (1998). Reflections on the internet paper mills [On-line]. Available:
http://georgetown.edu/honor/papermill.html [Location changed.]
                Roach, R. (1998). High-tech cheating. Black Issues in Higher Education, 15(22), 26-27.
            (From [Education Abstracts F/T 6/83-11/99]: H. W. Wilson [Producer and
            Distributor].) Retrieved November 4, 1999 from the World Wide Web:
           http://wilsonweb2.hwwilson.com/autologin **
Roig, M. (1997). Can undergraduate students determine whether text has been plagiarized?
Psychological Record, 47(1), 113-122. (From [MasterFILE Premier]: EBSCO
Publishing [Producer and Distributor].) Reterieved October 12, 1999 from the World
Wide Web: http://www.epnet.com/cgi-bin/EBSCOLOGIN [Nonworking Link]
Ryan, J. C. H. (1998). Student plagiarism in an online world. Prism [On-line serial].
            Available:
            http://www.asee.org/prism/december/html/student_plagiarism_in_an_onlin.htm
Stebelman, S. (1998). Cybercheating: Dishonesty goes digital. American Libraries, 29(8),
            48-50. (From [Academic Abstracts FullTEXT Ultra]: EBSCO Publishing [Producer
            and Distributor].) Retrieved November 4, 1999 from the World Wide Web:
           http://www.epnet.com/cgi-bin/EBSCOLOGIN [Nonworking Link]
Wilhoit, S. (1994). Helping students avoid plagiarism. College Teaching, 42(4), 161-164.
            (From [MasterFILE Premier]: EBSCO Publishing [Producer and Distributor].)
            Retrieved October 28, 1999 from the World Wide Web:
           http://www.epnet.com/cgi-bin/EBSCOLOGIN [Nonworking Link]    

  **  No direct links to articles in hwwilson.com (WilsonWeb).             
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West's encyclopedia of American law. (1998). St. Paul, MN: West.
          Ref. KF154 W47 1998

Chadwick, R. (Ed.). (1998). Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. New York:
            Academic Press.
            Ref. BJ63 E44 1998

LaFollette, M. C. (1992). Stealing into print: Fraud, plagiarism, and misconduct
           in scientific publishing. Berkeley, CA: University of California.
            Z286. S4 1992

Mallon, T. (1989). Stolen words: Forays into the origins and ravages of plagiarism.
            New York: Ticknor & Fields.
            PN167. M28 1989

Becker, L. C. (Ed.). (1992). Encyclopedia of Ethics. New York: Garland.
          Ref. BJ63 E45 1992

Paull, H. M. (1968). Literary ethics: A study in the growth of the literary conscience.
            Port Washington, NY: Kennikat.
            PN154. P3 1968

Stevens, K. R. (Ed.). (1999). Evidence-based teaching: Current research in nursing
          education. Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett.
          RT73. E94 1999  
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Finding Additional ResourcesThe Guggenheim Memorial Library subscribes to a number of databases that index, abstract, and,
in some cases, provide full text of periodical articles.  Click on the following links to try searches in
these select databases:

    General Category:  EBSCOhost; Lexis-Nexis; Wilson Omnifile; ProQuest Research Library

    Education Category:  ERIC; Wilson Education Abstracts

NOTE: Complete descriptions of all of our databases can be found here.

Plagiarism

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MDB 11/22/99; rev. 10/26/2000; rev. 2004.06.04 (hah)