Developing Policies

Two resources related to plagiarism policy:

Template for a Plagiarism Policy

http://www.noodletools.com/debbie/ethical/policytemplate.html

St. Louis University School of Law: Plagiarism Policy Statement

http://law.slu.edu/policies/plagiarism.html

Journal Articles Related to Plagiarism

Luckily, there are an increasing number of scholarly studies and essays on plagiarism. Here are a few, please add your own as you encounter them:

Improving Online Assignments to Deter Plagiarism

Alan McCord, Lawrence Technological University, USA (pages 41-49)

http://etec.hawaii.edu/proceedings/2008/McCord2008.pdf

"Institutional issues in deterring, detecting and dealing with student plagiarism" and "Deterring, Detecting and Dealing with Student Plagiarism" available from:

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/pub_plagiarism.aspx

Devlin, M. and Gray, K. (2007). In their own words: a qualitative study of the reasons Australian university students plagiarize. Higher Education Research & Development, 26(2), 2007, 181 – 198. [Available from Lane Library - online databases]

Devlin, M. (2006). Policy, preparation, and prevention: Proactive minimization of student

plagiarism. Journal of Higher Education Policy & Management, 28(1), 45-58. [Available from Lane Library - online databases]

Alam, L. and Donnan, P. (2007). The missing link: An educational module to promote a culture of academic integrity. 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Educational Integrity: Creating a culture of integrity, 6-7 Dec 2007. Adelaide, South Australia. [available from: http://ucspace.canberra.edu.au/download/attachments/2005/AlamDonnan-APCEI07_final.doc ]

Resources for Educating Students About Plagiarism

Here are a few websites related to plagiarism and helping inform and educate students;

• "The Least You Should Know About Plagiarism and Maintain Your GPA by Susan Thomas, revised by Steven Hale" is a one page overview of plagiarism and copyright and some basic differences between the two.
  http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/handouts/plagiarism.html

• "Is it plagiarism?" is a response by media specialists to a question from a parent about her son's copying and pasting from the internet. The respondants generally agree but also offer a variety of perspectives.
  http://www.doug-johnson.com/dougwri/is-it-plagiarism.html
  
  
• An online, interactive plagiarism tutorial from UCF
  http://www.cte.usf.edu/plagiarism/plag.html
  
  
• "Avoiding Plagiarism from the OWL at Purdue" is an overview of plagiarism from a robust and well-respected Online Writing Lab.
  http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/

Please post your own to contribute to the list of resources.

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