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learning more about plagiarism

Learn more about plagiarism prevention and detection, the legal issues and academic integrity, and some writing tips from the resources listed below. Some information concerning plagiarism and suggestions for its prevention and detection were confirmed or enhanced from a variety of sources, all of which are listed in the following bibliography.

Online Resources | Print Resources | Writing Center Resources
Honor Code & Academic Integrity Resources | Style Manuals

Online Resources

• A Faculty Guide to Cyber-Plagiarism *Excellent resource!! (University of Alberta Libraries)
• Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism by Lisa Hinchliffe
• Cyber-Plagiarism: Detection & Prevention (Center for Educational Technology Services, Pennsylvania State University)
• Electronic Plagiarism Seminar (Noreen Reale Falcone Library, Le Moyne College)
• Google.com (Search engine providing Web sites on plagiarism prevention and detection)
• Internet Paper Mills (Kimbel Library, Coastal Carolina University)
• Plagiarism.org (organization providing assistance for educators in detecting plagiarism)
• Plagiarism in Colleges in U.S.A. (by Ronald B. Standler)
• Preventing and Detecting Plagiarism (Staley Library, Millikin University)
• Resources for Web Plagiarism: Prevention and Detection (Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte)

Print Resources

• Anderson, Gregory. "Cyber-plagiarism: A Look at the Web Term Paper Sites." College & Research Libraries News 60 (May 1999): 371-74.  [UNCP Library - Periodicals]
• Anderson, Judy. Plagiarism, Copyright Violation and Other Thefts of Intellectual Property. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 1998.  [available via Interlibrary Loan]
• Burkle-Young, Francis A., and Saundra Rose Maley. The Art of the Footnote1 : The Intelligent Student's Guide to the Art and Science of Annotating Texts. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996.  [UNCP General Collection PN171.F56 B87 1996]
• Groark, Marie, Diana Oblinger, and Miranda Choa. "Term Paper Mills, Anti-Plagiarism, Tools, and Academic Integrity." Educause Review 36 (September/October 2001): 40-48.  [available via MasterFILE Premier]
• LaFollette, Marcel. Stealing Into Print: Fraud, Plagiarism, and Misconduct in Scientific Publishing. Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1992.  [UNCP General Collection Z286.S4 L33 1992]
• Lathrop, Ann, and Kathleen Foss. Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A Wake-Up Call. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2000.  [available from FSU & UNCW]
• Stebelman, Scott. "Cybercheating: Dishonesty Goes Digital." American Libraries 29 (September 1998): 48-51.  [Library owns; available via InfoTrac]
• Wilhoit, Stephen. "Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism." College Teaching 42 (Fall 1994): 161-64.  [Library owns]

Writing Center Resources for Students

• Avoiding Plagiarism (The Writing Place, Northwestern University)
• Detecting and Fighting Against Plagiarism (Writing Center, Millikin University)
• How Not to Plagiarize (Writing Support, Univeristy of Toronto)
• Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words (Online Writing Lab, Purdue University)
• Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Recognize and Avoid It (Writing Tutorial Services, Indiana University - Bloomington)

Honor Code & Academic Integrity Resources

• Avoiding Plagiarism: Mastering the Art of Scholarship (Student Judicial Affairs, UC Davis)
• Center for Academic Integrity (organization which discusses and promotes academic integrity)
• UNCP's Academic Honor Code (fulltext of UNCP's standards of academic honesty and integrity)
• What is Plagiarism? (Georgetown University Honor Council)

Style Manuals

• APA Bibliography Style Handbook (Publication Manual of the APA)
  • [UNCP Ready Reference BF76.7 .P83 2001]
• Chicago Manual of Style
  • [UNCP Reference Z253 .U69 1993]
    
• Columbia Guide to Online Style
  • [UNCP Ready ReferencePN171.F56 W35 1998]
• A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Turabian)
  • [UNCP Reserves-Reference LB2369 .T8 1996]
• MLA Bibliography Style Manual (MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers)
  • [UNCP Ready Reference LB2369 .G53 1999]
• Style Manual for Political Science (APSA)
  • [item on order for Sampson-Livermore Library]
• Research and Documentation in the Electronic Age
  • [item being processed for Sampson-Livermore Library]

Updated: Wednesday, May 11, 2011

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