On-line Resources on the Pedagogy of Plagiarism

The following are a selection of articles available online which discuss plagiarism in the general academic context. These papers discuss plagiarism issues including strategies, techniques, and approaches that academics can use for dealing with plagiarism.

Joanna Bull, Carol Collins, Elisabeth Coughlin and Dale Sharp (2001).Technical Review of Plagiarism Detection Software. University of Luton and JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service.

This report compares in detail the Turnitin, Findsame, Eve2, CopyCatch and WordCHECK packages.

Jude Carroll and John Appleton (2001).Plagiarism - A Good Practice Guide. Oxford Brookes University.

The main topics of this report include dealing with issues such as lecturer attitudes, educating students about referencing other work and designing assessments that are less prone to plagiarism. Also contains information that may be useful to an institution considering what form its anti-plagiarism guidelines and procedures should take. The information provided is detailed and well justified and the appendix contains a short summary of the recommendations the report discusses. Commissioned as one of four reports to be part of the JISC Electronic Plagiarism Detection Project.

Jude Carroll (2005).Deterring, Detecting and Dealing with Student Plagiarism. Joint Information Systems Committee.

This paper provides advice and guidance targeted at institutions for dealing with plagiarism.

Paul Clough (2000).Plagiarism in Natural and Programming Languages: an Overview of Current Tools and Technologies. University of Sheffield.

This report discusses in detail techniques used by students to hide plagiarism, legal aspects of proving that suspected plagiarism has taken place, and some of the tools available for detecting plagiarism.

Frances Condron (2001).Plagiarism and the Internet. Learning Technologies Group, Oxford University.

Report on the Electronic Plagiarism Detection workshop organised by Gill Chester of the Joint Information Systems Committee, held in London on the 16th July 2001. It summarises several reports that are covered in the Electronic Plagiarism Detection project of JISC.

Fintan Culwin, Anna MacLeod and Thomas Lancaster (2001).Source Code Plagiarism in UK HE Computing Schools, Issues, Attitudes and Tools . London: South Bank University SCISM Technical Report SBU-CISM-01-01.

This report discusses the extent and nature of source-code plagiarism and provides information on tools that might be deployed including a comparison of MOSS and JPlag source-code plagiarism detection tools.

Philip Davis (2002).The Effect of the Web on Undergraduate Citation Behavior: A 2000 update . College and Research Libraries 63(1) pp. 53-60.

This paper discusses citations in student assignments, and suggests that accuracy of Internet citations improved when term papers were submitted electronically.

Martin Dick, Judy Sheard, Cathy Bareiss, Janet Carter, Donald Joyce, Trevor Harding and Cary Laxer (2003). “ Addressing Student Cheating: Definitions and Solutions”. ACM SIGCSE Bulletin 35(2) pp. 172-184.

This paper describes issues on student cheating, attempts to explain why students cheat, and provides a definition on cheating in a question format.

Lisa Hinchcliffe (1998).Cut-and-Paste Plagiarism: Preventing, Detecting and Tracking Online Plagiarism . University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A brief starter guide aimed at the academic interested in detecting plagiarism. Some interesting references and links to "cheat sites" are included.

Chris Park (2003). “In Other (People’s) Words: Plagiarism by University Students — Literature and Lessons”.Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education 28(5) pp. 471-488.

This provides an in-depth literature review on plagiarism by students, and lessons it holds for higher education institutions in the UK.

Neil C. Rowe (2004). “ Cheating in Online Student Assessment: Beyond Plagiarism”. The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration 7(2).

This paper looks at cheating in online student assessment. The authors discuss the types of problems that can occur with on-line assessment and what can be done about them.

Justin Zobel (2004). “"Uni Cheats Racket": a Case Study in Plagiarism Investigation”. In Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Australasian Computing Education pp. 357-365. This describes a court case in which students have obtained material from a private tutor.

Jim Evans (2004). Plagiarism: Selection, Detection, Correction, Definition, Prevention and Reflection. Centre for Academic Practice, University of Warwick.

An interesting but brief discussion on plagiarism issues including methods students may use to obtain material, and clues in students work that suggests possible plagiarism. This paper also describes different types of plagiarism such as auto-plagiarism, self-plagiarism, and cryptomnesia. It also provides some very interesting references and further reading resources.

Links containing further resources

JISC Plagiarism Advisory Service Resources

This webpage provides very useful plagiarism related teaching and assessment resources containing guidance and advice to HE and FE academics and teachers. The guides include briefing papers, information on legal issues, research papers and tools, and good practice guides.

Higher Education Academy Resources (and search on “plagiarism”)

This webpage provides very useful teaching and assessment resources containing guidance and advice to HE and FE academics and teachers. The guides include briefing papers, and good practice guides.