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PLAGIARISM IN CYBERSPACE:
Sources, Prevention, Detection, and Other Information

CONTENTS
Introduction
Academic Integrity at CSUS
Prevention Techniques for Students
Copyright
Services to Detect Plagiarism
Center for Academic Integrity
Honor/Academic Integrity Codes
Bibliography

Bibliography

ARTICLES

Anderson, G, L. (1999). Cyberplagiarism: A look at the Web term paper sites. College & Research Library News, 60, 371-73, 394.


Auer, N. J., & Krupar, E. M. (2001). Mouse click plagiarism: The role of technology in plagiarism and the librarian's role in combatting it.
Library Trends, 49, 415-433.


Bass, D. (2001, January).
Is everyone cheating? CURRENTS.


Brown, V. J., & Howell, M. E. (2001). The efficacy of policy statements on plagiarism: Do they change students views.
Research in Higher Education, 42, 103-118.


Bugeja, M. (2001, November 26). Shop talk: Discussion of growing plagiarism trend among students.
Editor & Publisher, 134, 22.


Carbone, N. (2001).
Thinking and talking about plagiarism. Tech Notes.


Carbone, N. (2001)
Turnitin.com: A pedagogic placebo for plagiarism. Tech Notes.

Another point-of-view on Turnitin.


Culwin, F., & Lancaster, T. (2001). Plagiarism issues for higher education (pdf).Vine, 123, 36-41.


Dehnart, A. (1999).
The Web's plagiarism police. Salon.

An innocent student was accused of plagiarizing a paper via a detection service. Beware that no system is perfect.


Davis, B. G. (1993).
Preventing academic dishonesty. In Tools for teaching. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Strict instructions are given not to copy or reprint this chapter without permission.


Evans, J. (2000).
The new plagiarism in higher education: From selection to reflection (pdf). Interactions, 4 (2).


Fitzgerald, M. (2001, January 8). The newby plagiarism: Journalism school graduates.
Editor & Publisher, p. 21.


Fox, A. (2002, March 7). U. Virginia committee completes plagiarism investigations.
University Wire. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.


Frey, C. (2001, August 30). Chips and cheating: Teachers are looking out for tech-assisted dishonesty, even using software to detect plagiarism.
Los Angeles Times, p. T1. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.


Guiliano, E. (2000).
Deterring plagiarism in the age of the Internet. Inquiry, 5, 22-31.


Harris, R. (2002, March 8).
Anti-plagiarism strategies for research papers.

Harris focuses on faculty strategies.


Henry, B. (2001).
The impact the Internet has on plagiarism.


Howard, R. M. (2001, November 16). Forget about policing plagiarism: Just teach.
Chronicle of Higher Education. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Isserman, M. (2003, May 2). Plagiarism: A lie of the mind. Chronicle of Higher Education, 49, B12-B13. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.


Keddie, K. (2002, March 4).
Maybe now we should start outing all writers. History News Network.

Keith-Spiegel, P., Tabachnick, B. G., Whitley, B. E., & Washburn, J. (1998). Why professors ignore cheating: Opinions of a national sample of psychology instructors. Ethics & Behavior, 8, 215-227.


Kellogg, A. P. (2002, February 15). Students plagiarize online less than many think, a new study finds.
Chronicle of Higher Education, p. 44. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.


Kleiner, C. & Lord, M. (1999). The cheating game.
U.S. News & World Report, 127 (20), 54-66. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.


Kleiner, C., Lord, M. & Faber, L. (1999). The great term-paper buying caper.
U.S. News & World Report, 127 (20), 63.


Kock, N. (1999). A case of academic plagiarism.
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Kopytoff, V. G. (2000, January 19). Brilliant or exposed? Colleges use sites to expose cheaters.
New York Times, p.G7. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.


Leatherman, C. (1999, November 5). At Texas A&M, conflicting charges of misconduct tear a program apart.
Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A18.


Maas, D. F. (2002). Make your paraphrasing plagiarism proof with a coat of E-Prime.
ETC, 59, 196-206.


Mahon, R. L. (2002). Got plagiarism? Try the guillotine: Point of view.
Community College Week, 15 (9) 4-6.


McCabe, D. L. (1999). Academic dishonesty among high school students.
Adolescence, 34, 681-689.

McCabe, D. L. (2001a). New research on academic integrity: The success of "modified" honor codes. Synfax Weekly Reports.


McCabe, D. L. (2001b).
Plagiarism and plagiarism detection go high tech [Colloquy live transcript]. Chronicle of Higher Education.

Question-and-answer session with Donald L. McCabe.
McCabe, D. L., & Drinan. (1999, October 15). Toward a culture of academic integrity. Chronicle of Higher Education, p. B7.

McCabe, D. L., & Pavela, G. (n.d.) Ten principles of academic integrity. Ashville, NC: College Administration Publications.


McCabe, D. L., & Trevino, L. K. (1993). Academic dishonesty; Honor codes and other contextual influences.
Journal of Higher Education, 64, 522-539.


McCabe, D. L., & Trevino, L. K. (1996). What we know about cheating in college.
Change, 28, 28-34.


McCabe, D. L., & Trevino, L. K. (1999). Academic integrity in honor code and non-honor code environments: A qualitative investigation.
Journal of Higher Education, 70, 211-234.


McCabe, D. L., & Trevino, L. K. (2001). Dishonesty in academic environments: The influence of peer reporting requirements.
Journal of Higher Education, 72, 29-45.


McCabe, D. L., Treveno, L. K., & Butterfield, K. D. (2001). Cheating in academic institution: A decade of research.
Ethics & Behavior, 11, 219-232.


McKenzie, J. (1998).
The new plagiarism: Seven antidotes to prevent highway robbery in an electronic age. From Now On, 7 (8).


Martin, B. (1994).
Plagiarism: A misplaced emphasis. Journal of Information Ethics, 3 (2).


Murray, B. (2002).
Keeping plagiarism at bay in the Internet age. APA Monitor, 33 (2).


Murray, B. (2002).
Technological tools to detect dishonesty. APA Monitor, 33 (2).


Murray, B. (1996, January). Professors turning a blind eye to cheating.
APA Monitor.


Overbey, G. A. U., & Guiling, S. F. (1999). Student perceptions of plagiarism and the evaluation of assignments.
Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 10 (3), 3-22.


Petress, K. C. (2003). Academic dishonesty: A plague on our profession.
Education, 123, 624-628.


Prenshaw, P. J., Straughan, R. D., & Albers-Miller, N. D. (2001).
University dishonesty policy and student perceptions of cheating: An exploratory content analysis across fourteen universities (pdf).


Ranalli, R. (1998, December 8). Judge drops BU lawsuit against Web paper mills.
Boston Herald, p. 14. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.


Rocklin, T. (1996).
Downloadable term papers: What's a prof to do.


Roig, M. (1997). Can undergraduate students determine whether text has been plagiarized?
Psychological Record, 47, 113-123.


Rothenberg, D. (1997, August 15). How the Web destroys the quality of students' research papers.
Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A44. Available Lexis-Nexis Acdemic Universe.


Rothstein. E. (2002, March 9). Plagiarism that doesn't add up.
New York Times, p. B9. Available Lexis-Nexis Acdemic Universe.


Roulias, S. (n. d.).
What is honesty in academia, and is it important?


Ryan, J. (1998).
Student plagiarism in an online world. ASEE PRISM Online.


Schneider, A. (1999, January 22).
Why professors don't do more to stop students who cheat. Chronicle of Higher Education, pp. A8-10. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Smith, J., & Reese, D. (2002, March 14). Speech theft, plagiarism thrive through the Internet.
University Wire.


Standler, R. B. (2000).
Plagiarism in colleges in USA.

Presents the legal point-of-view.
Stebelman, S. (1998). Cybercheating: Dishonesty goes digital. American Libraries, 29, 48-51.


Stepp, L. S. (2002, July 16). Point, click, think? As students rely on the Internet for research, teachers try to warn of the Web's snares.
Washington Post, p. C01. Available Dow-Jones.


Storch, E. A. (2003). Academic dishonesty and attitudes towards academic dishonest acts: Support for cognitive dissonance theory.
Psychological Reports, 92, 174-177.

Weiss, K. R. (2000, February 15). Focus on ethics can curb cheating, colleges find; Behavior: Academic dishonesty is rampant, but students will respond to higher standards of integrity. Los Angeles Times, p. A1. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Donald L. McCabe's 1999 plagiarism/cheating study on college students and faculty is discussed.


White, E. M. (1993, February 24). Too many campuses want to sweep student plagiarism under the rug.
Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A44.


Wilhoit, S. (1994). Helping students avoid plagiarism.
College Teaching, 42, 161-164.


Young, Jeffrey R. (2001, July 6). The cat-and-mouse game of plagiarism detection.
Chronicle of Higher Education, pp. 26-27. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

BOOKS

Decoo, W. (2002). Crisis on campus: Confronting academic misconduct. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. LB 2344 .D43 2002.


Harris, R. A. (2001).
The plagiarism handbook: Strategies for preventing, detecting, and dealing with plagiarism. Los Angeles, CA: Pyrczak Publishing. PN 167 .H57 2001.


Howard, R. M. (1999).
Standing in the shadow of giants. Plagiarists, authors, collaborators. Stamford, CT: Ablex. PN 167 .H69 1999.


LaFollette, P. F. (1992). S
tealing into print: Fraud, plagiarism, and misconduct in scientific publishing. Berkeley: University of California Press. Z 286 .S4 L33 1992.


Lathrop, A. (2000).
Student cheating and plagiarism in the Internet era: A wake-up call. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited. LB 3609 .L28 2000.

Valuable for a college audience even though aimed at high schools.

NEWS FOR FACULTY

Unfortunately, students are not the only persons plagiarizing today. This section contains some articles on the state of plagiarism among current historians, authors, and faculty.


Arenson, K. W. (2002, February 22). SUNY classics professor is accused of plagiarism.
New York Times, p. 1B. Available Dow-Jones.

Bruce, R. V. (2002, March 18).
Scotching plagiarism. History News Network.

The saga of Robert Bruce, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, who had his book on Alexander Graham Bell plagiarized by Scottish author, James MacKay. "Of the 297 pages of Mackay's text, 285 contain obvious plagiarisms . . ." from Bruce's work. Mackay also plagiarized from other biographies of Bell, but those authors are deceased. Not so with Bruce!
Carey, J. W. (2003). Mirror of the times: Plagiarism scandal at the New York Times. Nation, 276 (23), 5.


Crader, B. (2002, January 21).
Is Doris Kearns Goodwin a hypocrite? History News Network.

Crawford, T. (2003, June 7). Liar, liar: Workplace whoppers crop up everywhere: But why are people risking their careers?
Toronto Star, p. L01. Available Dow-Jones.

Farah, S. (2002, January 31).
Taking a page out of another's book. Christian Science Monitor.

Flores, C., & Hebel, S. (2002, January 18). A historian meets his Little Bighorn.
Chronicle of Higher Education, p. 16. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Hils, R. (2002, February 11).
How long will it take Stephen Ambrose to correct his mistakes? History News Network.

Jacobson, J., & Wilson, R. (2001, August 10). Texas A&M fires professor on charges she plagiarized colleagues' work.
Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A10. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Kirkpatrick, D. D. (2002, February 22). Historian says borrowing was wider than known.
New York Times, p. A10. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Kirkpatrick, D. D. (2002, January). 2 say Stephen Ambrose, popular historian, copied passages.
New York Times, p. A8. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Lewin, T. (2002, October 3). Hamilton president resigns over speech.
New York Times, p. B10. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

President leaves position for not citing sources in a speech.

Lieberman, T. (1995). Plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize: Only be sure to call it research. Columbia Journalism Review, 4.

Consequences of plagiarism among journalists from 1988 - early 1990s.

Miller, A. J. (2002, March 1). Plagiarism controversy costs historiam Goodwain speaking engagements. University Wire. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Miller, K. (2002, February 10).
Strain at a gnat, but swallow a camel; With Ambrose and Goodwin in mind. History News Network.

Nobile, P. (2002, February 23).
Three new books [Doris Kearns Goodwin]. History News Network.

Rabinowitz, D. (2002, April 11). Investigating Ms. Goodwin. Wall Street Journal, p. A18. Available Dow-Jones.

Ringle, K. (2002, January 11). Stephen Ambrose and the rights of passage.
Washington Post, p. C01. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Selingo, J. (1998, March 13). Brigham Young professor admits he plagiarized significant portions of a book.
Chronicle of Higher Education, p. A16. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Sheridan, C. (2002, February 17). Piper pays the cost of slipping values.
The Plain Dealer, p. H2. Available Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe.

Christine Pelton, a Kansas high-school biology teacher, resigned after her students plagiarized on a semester-project. She was NOT backed by the Board of Education.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

Jeffreys, J., & Romano, V. (2002). Plagiarism and papermills: FAQ's. Urbana: University of Illinois, College of Education.

Nixon, S. (2002).
Keeping a lid on plagiarism: Resources. Towson, MD: Towson University.

Royce, J. (2003).
Plagiarism: Keeping up with the cheats: A bibliography. Istanbul: Robert College.

Simmonds, P. (2003, June).
Plagiarism and cyber-plagiarism: A guide to selected resources on the Web. C&RL News, 64.

Stoerger, S. (2003).
Plagiarism. Urbana: University of Illinois.

University of Maryland. Center for Intellectual Property. (2003).
Current issues & resources: Plagiarism. Adelphi, MD: Author.
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