Plagiarism
SVC Academic Honor Code
SVC's academic code of conduct for students. For an interactive student tutorial on the SVC Academic Honor Code and avoiding plagiarism, see the Library's TILT Tutorial, Module 4. Results can be emailed to instructors.
Citation Guides
808.02 CHICAGO
The Chicago manual of style. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003.
808.027 WALKER
The Columbia guide to online style / Janice R. Walker and Todd Taylor. New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
808.066 SCIENTI
Scientific style and format : the CSE manual for authors, editors, and publishers / Style Manual Committee, Council of Science Editors. Reston, VA : Council of Science Editors in cooperation with the Rockefeller University Press, 2006.
808.06615 PUBLICA 2010
Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. Washington, DC : American Psychological Association, c2001.
808.06654 ACS
The ACS style guide : effective communication of scientific information. Washington, DC : American Chemical Society ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Full-Text Articles
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Confronting Plagiarism
| Reports on the impact of digital revolution on the increase of student cheating as of May 2004. |
Methods for Helping Students Avoid Plagiarism
| Reports on the results of a project to teach students how to identify and reduce plagiarism. |
Plagiarism and Technology: A Tool for Coping With Plagiarism
| Evaluation of TurnItIn.com online plagiarism detection system to determine whether it would be practical to use in an academic setting and would have an effect on student plagiarism. Includes results, conclusions, limitations, and recommendations for faculty use of a plagiarism detection system. |
Sticky Fingers on the Information Superhighway
| Illustrates the increasing number of community college students in the U.S. who plagiarize. |
Student Online Plagiarism
| Reviews quantitative studies of student plagiarism over the past forty years; offers strategies for addressing cyber-plagiarism; and argues that faculty should act as educators, rather than as detectives. |
In the Library
eBookAcademic Dishonesty An Educator's Guide / [Electronic Resource] : Bernard E. Whitley, Jr., Patricia Keith-Spiegel. Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2002.
004.678 AVOIDIN
Avoiding plagiarism [videorecording] / produced and directed by Fabian-Baber, Inc. Imprint Wynnewood, Pa : Schlessinger Media, c2004.
371.1 NEW D/t No.99
Addressing faculty and student classroom improprieties / John M. Braxton, Alan E. Bayer, editors. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2004.
371.58 CHEATIN (faculty use only)
Cheating and plagiarism using the Internet [videorecording] / produced by DALLAS TeleLearning, LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications, Dallas County Community College District; presented by PBS Adult Learning Service. 2003.
025.3 LIPSON
Doing honest work in college : how to prepare citations, avoid plagiarism, and achieve real academic success / Charles Lipson. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2004.
Web Resources
Academic Integrity Module (AIM) - TILT
| Focuses on the Skagit Valley College Academic Honor Code, and includes strategies for avoiding plagiarism.. |
Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
| Provides strategies that can be used to combat plagiarism on research papers and help encourage students avoid plagiarism. |
Avoiding Plagiarism
| Information and tips on how to avoid plagiarism from Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL). |
Cheating 101: Paper Mills and You
| An abbreviated version of the presentation given as part of the Teaching Effectiveness Seminars held at Coastal Carolina University aimed at providing faculty with an overview of the current state of Internet Paper Mills, how to locate Paper Mills, detect plagiarized papers, track down suspicious papers, and combat plagiarism. |
Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
| Includes information on Plagiarisiam awareness, warning signs, what to cite, and how to cite from the Duke University Libraries. |
Collected Plagiarism Policies
| Links to plagiarism policies at selected colleges and universities compiled by the Center for Intellectual Property at University of Maryland University College. Also includes links to faculty and student ownership policies. |
Guide to Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism
| Includes resources for both faculty and students from the University of Alberta Libraries. |
How to Avoid Plagiarism
| From the Undergraduate Academic Conduct Committee at Northwestern Univerisy. |
Plagiarism Resource Site
| A site developed to help reduce the impact of plagiarism on education and educational institutions. It includes discussion forums, free software to detect plagiarism, and links to other plagiarism resources. |
Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
| Information from Writing Tutorial Services at Indiana University focusing on teaching students how to recognize and avoid plagiarism. |
Plagiary: Cross-disciplinary studies in plagiarism, fabrication and falsification
| An online journal devoted to the scholarly, cross-disciplinary study of plagiary and related behaviors across the disciplines. |
Understanding Plagiarism
| An online interactive tutorial from Pearson Prentiss Hall that includes quizzes with results than can be emailed. |