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Assignment Design Strategies
Dalhousie University provides this page of ideas on how faculty can make assignments that help prevent plagiarism and provides examples of assignments.
CETL at Albany State University of New York maintains this page to help teachers detect and avoid plagiarism.
Lisa Hinchliffe at the University of Illinois writes about what plagiarism is and how to detect and prevent it.
Kimbel Library, at Coastal Carolina University, provides this page of tips for talking with students about plagiarism, focusing on the process, and for making assignments with steps that help prevent plagiarism.
This Web site from the University of Alberta Libraries provides information on "Cyber-plagiarism" including how to prevent, detect, and report plagiarism of Web sites. In addition, there are links to recommended resources for articles and Web sites on plagiarism and handouts that can be photocopied for class.
Charles P. Carlson, an emeritus faculty member at the University of Denver, wrote this brief article about Internet plagiarism and how to detect it.
The American University in Cairo maintains this page. It has very useful links under Defining Plagiarism, Detecting Plagiarism, Avoiding Plagiarism, Internet Plagiarism and Further Reading.
The library at the University of Queensland in Australia maintains this site. The site describes what is plagiarism and how it can be avoided. It also provides links for teachers to sites to help them detect plagiarism.
The Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing at the University of Minnesota provides links for faculty and students to detect and avoid plagiarism. In addition, links to the definitions of plagiarism and a bibliography of plagiarism articles are included.
This site is "designed to provide the latest information on online plagiarism and explain how their user portal, Turnitin.com, is now being used by educators all over the world to fight plagiarism and help bring academic integrity back into our schools." It gives detailed information about Internet plagiarism, and a report on the growth of "cheatsites" online.
"The purpose of this site is to help teachers or professors (or even parents) determine if a given piece of academic work has been obtained from the Internet." There is a list of "dead giveaways", research advice, and advice on how to reduce the opportunities for plagiarism.
This site, created by two librarians at Owens Library, suggests assignment styles and strategies that faculty may use to discourage plagiarism.
Fifteen easy tips for helping students avoid plagiarism are provided from the Osterlin Library at Northwestern Michigan College.
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