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The effect of a penalty tariff on Consistent decision making in cases of student plagiarism

by Jude Carroll et al.

Evaluating the effectiveness of tariff penalties given to students for plagiarism and ethics violations.

The Future of Wikipedia in Education

Published June 2, 2017

How educators can integrate Wikipedia into courses for thinking about research, digital literacy, and critical thinking.

What Students Don't Understand About Plagiarism

Published June 2, 2017

Discussion of study results on how well students understand plagiarism.

Why is it still plagiarism when I paraphrase and use my own words?

Published August 6, 2021

Learn how to distinguish paraphrasing and plagiarism from original work.

Fostering Plagiarism Awareness

Published April 17, 2017

This webinar discusses how to use Turnitin and the Plagiarism Spectrum in the classroom to help students learn academic integrity.

Improvisation and Plagiarism

Published June 1, 2017

Promoting a culture of creativity within improvisation.

Stopping Plagiarism at the Source

Published April 17, 2017

Barry Gilmore discusses how to stop plagiarism before it happens with well-designed assignments.

Responding to Plagiarism

Published June 1, 2017

Lesson plans and rubrics to help teach students about plagiarism.

Addressing Plagiarism in Student Presentations

Published June 2, 2017

Addressing plagiarism and proper citation in student presentations.

Mimesis and Plagiarism

Published June 2, 2017

How mimicry and modeling differ from plagiarism and can help students learn.

Paying for Plagiarism

Published June 2, 2017

Discussion on the costs and consequences of contract cheating.

How Instructors Respond to Plagiarism

Published June 2, 2017

Survey results on how instructors respond to plagiarism when they encounter it.

Extreme Plagiarism to Contextualized Understanding

Published June 2, 2017

Using the pedagogy of contextualization to help students understand the risks of unoriginal writing.

Engaging Faculty and Students to Resist Plagiarism

Published June 2, 2017

How to use academic integrity policies to engage students and faculty to learn how to avoid different types of plagiarism.

Students and Plagiarism

Published June 1, 2017

Exploring the disconnect between student morals and behavior regarding plagiarism.

Tagging Plagiarism in the Classroom

Published June 1, 2017

Discussion about the Plagiarism Spectrum and strategies for raising awareness.

4 Tips to Easily Avoid Plagiarism

Published August 12, 2021

How can you grow your writing confidence as a student and avoid plagiarism while drafting a paper? Read on to find out.

How Big of a Problem is Contract Cheating?

Published December 12, 2017

How big of a problem are contract cheating and ghost writing in academic contexts? Bigger than you might think.

Streamlining Plagiarism Detection

by Cath Ellis

Examining the issues of effectiveness and efficiency in plagiarism detection for electronic assessment management.

Promoting a culture of academic awareness and honesty:

by Arlëne Hunter

Using a constructivist approach to emphasize academic skills in the fight against plagiarism.

Learning about plagiarism through information literacy:

by Debbi Boden et al.

Preventing plagiarism through information literacy.

Is It Plagiarism If My Teacher Uses My Writing?

Published November 16, 2017

The ways in which instructors are allowed and not allowed to use student work

​Is Plagiarism Illegal?

Published October 27, 2017

Can plagiarism be illegal?

Preventing Plagiarism

Learn about the great variety of ways we can prevent plagiarism in the classroom, school, or society....

Do Improperly Cited Sources = Plagiarism?

Published June 7, 2017

Improper citation still counts as plagiarism.

University teachers discussing plagiarism:

by Diane Pecorari et al.

A study on instructors' differing views on plagiarism.

A Fragile Trust: Plagiarism, Power

Published June 26, 2017

Samantha Grant discusses her film "A Fragile Trust" about the discgraced journalist Jayson Blair.

What is Plagiarism?

Published May 18, 2017

Understand the definition of plagiarism.

Printing and Sharing Information from Plagiarism.org

Published June 7, 2017

Reproducing information from plagiarism.org is allowed.

Why Isn’t Parody Considered Plagiarism?

Published July 24, 2018

It's not always easy for students to understand the differences of satire and parody vs. plagiarism. This article highlights the subtleties.

What does citation have to do with plagiarism?

Published September 25, 2017

Discussion on why citation helps students avoid plagiarism

How Well Do You Know Plagiarism?

Is it Plagiarism? My Teacher and I Don't Agree

Published May 26, 2017

Paul and his teacher don't agree about the use of "common knowledge."

Assisting students to avoid plagiarism:

by S.D. Sivasubramaniam

Analyzing the effectiveness of formative workshops in teaching about and preventing plagiarism.

​Is it Plagiarism to Pay Someone to Write for Me?

Published October 27, 2017

Paying someone to write an assignment for you is contract cheating, unethical, and does not allow you to own the work you buy.

Does Doing Work for Someone Else Count as Plagiarism?

Published June 7, 2017

Is it plagiarism to write papers for other students?

I Have Been Charged with Plagiarism! What Do I Do? 2

Published June 7, 2017

What to do if you are being charged with plagiarism.

I Have Been Charged with Plagiarism! What Do I Do? 1

Published June 7, 2017

Does submitting the same project to two classes count as plagiarism?

Eliminating the successor to plagiarism?

by Robert Clarke et al.

Identifying contract cheating as the successor to plagiarism.

What Does Confidence Have to do with Plagiarism?

Published November 16, 2017

Confidence helps students avoid plagiarism and produce original work

Is Parody Plagiarism?

Published June 7, 2017

Can a parody be considered plagiarism?

The Best Advice in Avoiding Plagiarism

Published September 25, 2017

Advice on asking your teacher about plagiarism to know how to avoid it.

Understanding Plagiarism with Help from Dr. Seuss

Published June 1, 2017

Using Dr. Seuss to help students understand plagiarism.

A 21st Century Way to Teach Plagiarism and Ethics

Published June 2, 2017

A gamified approach to teaching how to process ethical decisions in the professional world.

Preventing Plagiarism when Writing

Published August 2, 2021

Tips on avoiding accidental plagiarism while writing.

Lessons Learnt from Running a Plagiarism Awareness Campaign

by Susannah Quinsee et al.

The positive results of and lessons learned from a plagiarism awareness week.

Plagiarism Research

Plagiarism as an epistemological obstacle:

by Stephen Gow

The possible challenges immigrating graduate students from China might encounter in understanding plagiarism, citation, and research practices.

Understanding Plagiarism

International postgraduate students’ experiences of plagiarism education in the UK:

by Mary Davis

Insight into how international, post-graduate students may understand plagiarism.

Stemming the Tide of Plagiarism in Online Classes

Published June 2, 2017

How to develop online courses that reduce the chances of plagiarism and academic misconduct.

Towards a Social Model of Plagiarism

by Mike Reddy et al.

Identifying the causes of plagiarism in the power relationships of colleges and universities.

Can I Be Accused of Plagiarism

Published July 24, 2018

Can I Be Accused of Plagiarism if I Cite Everything Correctly?

A roll-out of the JISC plagiarism detection service with biological sciences students

by Joanne Badge et al.

Report on the roll-out of the JISC plagiarism detection service with biological sciences students.

Plagiarism Reference Tariff

by P Tennant et al.

A penalty tariff to offer guidance to institutions for assigning penalties in objective and transparent ways.

Plagiarism really is a crime:

by George MacDonald Ross

Defending the concept of plagiarism against anarchism and postmodernism.

Plagiarism : A pilot focus group study

by Raymond Singh

Broadening the understanding of students' concepts of plagiarism from Asian cultures.

Teaching About Plagiarism

Plagiarism Found in Newspaper

Published June 7, 2017

Case of plagiarism in a newspaper.

Plagiarism Policy

Institutions that are prepared to prevent or handle plagiarism benefit from higher levels of academic honesty. This section contains best practices...

Plagiarism Research

The topic of plagiarism is a large and varied subject with wide-ranging implications for education. This section contains research sizing the problem,...

Plagiarism Proceedings in Higher Education -

by Martin Jones

Analysis of plagiarism regulations in universities to identify needs of standardisation.

Plagiarism Spectrum Drill-Down

Published May 31, 2017

Experts discuss the top 5 most common types of plagiarism, as identified in the plagiarism spectrum.

Plagiarism and the Web

Published June 2, 2017

Discussion on the different sources that high school and college students use for unoriginal writing.

Plagiarism Checking

The only way we can make sure we're successfully teaching students how to write with integrity is by checking and assessing their work....

Plagiarism Checking

Plagiarism Policy

Preventing Plagiarism

So You’ve Been Accused Of Plagiarism: Now What?

Published July 24, 2018

Being accused of plagiarism is certainly frightening for students, but they should know that it's not always the end of the world.

Teaching about Plagiarism

The best way to prevent plagiarism is to educate students on how to properly conduct research, cite, quote, and produce unique and original work. This...

Getting the Ghostwriter Out of Your Class

Published June 1, 2017

Strategies to help instructors identify ghostwritten work in class.

Assessing maturity of institutional policies for underpinning academic integrity

by Irene Glendinning

How the Academic Integrity Maturity Model might be applied for institutional use.

Benchmark Plagiarism Tariff

by P Tennant et al.

The results of a consultation exercise to develop a benchmark tariff for assigning penalties to cases of plagiarism.

Understanding Plagiarism

Many students are accused of plagiarism because they simply don't understand it and, therefore, don't know how to avoid it....

User acceptance of Turnitin application in Pakistani HEI's

by M. Ahmed et al.

Report on user acceptance of Turnitin within Pakistan's Higher Education Institute.

European Responses to Student Plagiarism in Higher Education

by Irene Glendinning

The results of the European Commission's project assessing the impact of plagiarism policies in higher education.

Bob Dylan, Creativity and Plagiarism

by Gary Browning

Using Bob Dylan to think in different ways about plagiarism.

A Phenomenographic research project looking at HE Lecturers’ views on the plagiarism detection system Turnitin

by Peter Shukie

Taking a phenomenographic approach to understand higher education instructors' perspectives on Turnitin.

Methods for Successful Plagiarism Discussions

Published June 2, 2017

How to introduce plagiarism at the beginning of an undergraduate course so incoming freshmen understand it.

Is it Plagiarism if I Borrow Someone's Ideas

Published July 24, 2018

Can you plagiarize ideas, or can you only plagiarize words?

European students’ voices on plagiarism and academic practices

by Anna Michalska

How students perceive plagiarism from the perspectives of a variety of different cultures.

High school students’ understanding of e-plagiarism

by Kwok-Wing Lai et al.

How high school students in New Zealand understand plagiarism.

A Dramatic strategy against plagiarism

by Debbi Boden et al.

Developing a university-wide plagiarism prevention strategy in concert with an information literacy strategy.

How Students Perceive Plagiarism

Published June 2, 2017

Discussing the results of a survey that asked students their perceptions of plagiarism.

The Cultural Implications of Contract Cheating

Published June 1, 2017

How culture affects and is affected by contract cheating.

An Active Introduction to Academic Misconduct & the Measured Demographics of Misconduct

by Fintan Culwin

Unoriginal writing may be linked to attrition among first year students.

How effective are electronic plagiarism detection systems and does it matter how you use them?

by Jo Badge

Examining the evidence for the effects of plagiarism detection systems.

Plagiarism's Impact on a Post-Academic Career

Published June 2, 2017

The consequences of plagiarism in the post-academic world.

Plagiarism: Facts & Stats

Published June 7, 2017

Basic statistics and facts about plagiarism.

The Plagiarism Proof Thesis

Published June 2, 2017

Tips on teaching secondary students how to write a plagiarism proof thesis.

Test cases for plagiarism detection software

by Debora Weber-Wulff

Information on test cases used to evaluate plagiarism detection software.

‘Text comparison software for students’: an educational development tool or quick ‘text checker’ –

by Arlene Hunter

Evaluating whether institutions should open up access to plagiarism detection services for students for formative learning purposes.

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