Academic Integrity -- Geisler Library Central College

Academic Integrity

Central College's Academic Integrity policy

Recommended sites for students

Avoiding Plagiarism from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab. Aimed at students, this guide takes students step by step through the writing process.
What Is Plagiarism?" (Georgetown University Honor Council) FAQs written for students which answer many of the common questions about plagiarism, paraphrasing, collaboration, copyright, and more.

Recommended sites for faculty and students

Harris, Robert. Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers For faculty: helps develop awareness, prevention and detection strategies regarding plagiarism.
Electronic Plagiarism Seminar from LeMoyne College. The #1 source for information on plagiarism and how to avoid it, this lengthy resource includes news on copyright and plagiarism, definitions, guides for teachers and students, more.
Faculty Guide to Cyber-Plagiarism from University of Alberta Libraries. Another very complete online guide.

Recommended Books

Harris, Robert A. The Plagiarism Handbook: Strategies for Preventing, Detecting, and Dealing with Plagiarism. 2001. FACULTY RESERVE (Call # 808.027 Ha 7 p) This book is aimed at faculty and is a super guide to use with assignments and students. Topics include: Educating yourself about plagiarism; Educating your students about plagiarism; Constructing assignments to prevent plagiarism; Strategies for detecting plagiarism; Strategies for dealing with plagiarism; Administrative and Institutional issues relating to plagiarism; Definitions and policies; Quizzes and activities; Resources.

Harris, Robert A. Using Sources Effectively: Strengthening Your Writing and Avoiding Plagiarism. 2002. FACULTY RESERVE (Call # 808.027 Ha 7 u) This book is aimed at students and includes exercises and quizzes. It is also useful for faculty to use with students and assignments. Topics include: The Importance of using sources effectively; Avoiding plagiarism; Selecting sources; Working with sources.

Lathron, Ann and Kathleen Foss. Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A Wake-up Call. 2000.
Library copy call # 808.027 La 7 st. Also available from NetLibrary http://www.netlibrary.com

Harris, Robert. Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers. For faculty: helps develop awareness, prevention and detection strategies regarding plagiarism. Though addressed primarily to high school teachers, this book contains useful strategies and information dealing primarily with electronic resources and high-tech cheating.

Center for Academic Integrity
The Center, at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke U., promotes academic integrity in academic communities. The Center's web site provides a wealth of material. CAI is a consortium of over 225 institutions, and provides to its members "a Forum to Identify and Affirm the Values of Academic Integrity and to Promote Their Achievement in Practice" (mission statement)

Finding the source of plagiarized works

Central College subscribes to Turnitin software from Plagiarism.org. Contact the Office of Academic Affairs for details on how to use this software.

Suspected plagiarism from journals can be checked using keyword searches on any of the library's databases such as EBSCO. Also check Britannica Online and Oxford Reference.

A first place to check for plagiarism from the web is to enter a suspect phrase (at least 4-6 words -- use quotes around a phrase) from a paper into several of the web search engines such as Google, AllTheWeb, AltaVista, Northern Light, Excite, DogPile, MSN, or Mamma.

Directories can also locate on-line material by topic or title. Since they include sites chosen by actual people instead of web spiders, they may include sites not found by the search engines. Try Yahoo, LookSmart, or the Google Directory.

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Created by L. Smith. Revised November 14, 2006bem