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

CONTENTS

Introduction

Academic Integrity at CSUS

Sources of Plagiarism

Prevention Techniques for Students

Copyright

Services to Detect Plagiarism

Center for Academic Integrity

Honor/Academic Integrity Codes

Bibliography

Prevention Techniques to Help Students Avoid Plagiarism

These online handouts contain tips and techniques, definitions, strategies, and examples to assist students. Some of the best are written by writing centers, but other departments have compiled good information. In addition, two documents are from university honor councils/student affairs. Also there are two university policies on academic integrity which address plagiarism.

Academic Integrity at Princeton (Princeton University)

Academic Integrity (University of Texas)

Avoiding Plagiarism (DePauw University, Writing Center)

Avoiding Plagarism (Hamilton College, Writing Center)

Avoiding Plagiarism (Northwestern University, The Writing Place)

Avoiding Plagiarism (Purdue University, Online Writing Lab)

Avoiding Plagiarism (UC Davis, Student Judicial Affairs)
Paraphrase: Write It in Your Own Words (Purdue University, Online Writing Lab)

Plagiarism (University of Michigan)

Plagiarism (Indiana University, Writing Tutorial Services)

Plagiarism: Definitions, Examples and Penalties (University of Kentucky, Chemistry Dept.)

Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Avoid It (University of British Columbia, Biology Program Guide)

Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing (Purdue University, Online Writing Lab)

What is Plagiarism? (Dartmouth College)

This is from Dartmouth's copywrited online publication Sources: Their Use and Acknowledgement (2001).

What is Plagiarism? (Georgetown University Honor Council)

Prepared by Laura M. Boyer, CSU Stanislaus Library
Technical assistance by Rick Dietz and Loretta Blakeley
Technical maintenance by the
CSUS Library (wwwlibrary@wwwlibrary.csustan.edu)
Prepared April 16, 2002; revised December 3, 2007