Prevention & Community Health: Avoiding Plagiarism

Resources created by Duke University on plagiarism.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The article discusses the impact of technology, academic capitalism, institutional constraints and diversity on academic misconduct in post secondary education in the U.S.

Research on the causes of student misconduct in higher education has largely overlooked the values of integrating individual and situational perspectives to structure empirical examinations. This article examines situational perspectives to plagiarism.

SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service, offered by Blackboard. (Free - via GW Blackboard)

Instructors can set up SafeAssignments in their Blackboard courses. As students submit papers, they are checked against SafeAssign's comprehensive databases of source material checking for potential plagiarism.

Example of a SafeAssign report