Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM): Avoiding Plagiarism

- Great tutorial from Indiana University on how to avoid plagiarism in your writing. Provides word-for-word and paraphrasing plagiarism examples, practice areas with feedback, and a test with feedback and completion certificate.

Cut & paste your student's paper or homework assignment into the box, and click the "check" button. This free plagiarism detector will find plagiarized text in homework and other essays/reports.

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Upload or copy/paste your text to check for plagiarism. Word, text document or HTML limit of 1.000 words or 300KB.

- This site is designed to help educators and students develop a better sense of what plagiarism means in the information age, and to teach the planning, organizational, and citation skills essential for producing quality writing and research.

Overview of copyright and fair use from the Stanford University Libraries.

American Library Association resource page on copyright.

Complete text of the U.S. Copyright Law from The United States Copyright Office.

Resources created by Duke University on plagiarism.

Examples and explanations of plagiarism from verbatim copying to thorough paraphrasing; examples of computer program plagiarism are included.

GW Writing Center can provide tips on common issues writers face when trying to avoid plagiarism.

Reproducible copyright chart from Lolly Gasaway at UNC.