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Top 100 Essay Sites
Resources on Academic Honesty: Sample Policies and Articles on PlagiarismAcademic Issues -- University of Oregon
Biology Program Guide "Plagiarism, What it is and How to Avoid it." University of British Columbia.
Excellent examples of original text and then the plagiarized version are included in this guide.Clabaugh, Gary K. The Plagiarism Book. New Foundations Press. ISBN 1-929463-02-2
Clabaugh, Gary K. Preventing Plagiarism & Cheating: An Instructor's Guide. New Foundations Press. 1999.
Clemson Computer Science Department Academic Honesty Policy Last modified January 2001.
Cyber Citizenship This is aimed primarily at parents.
Faculty Resource on Grading -- University of Washington
Flannery, Mary Ellen. Cyber-Cheating. NEA Today, November 2004. Article on
Harris, Robert. "Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers." Vanguard University of Southern California. 2 October 2000.
Hopkins, Gary. Take Note. Article from Education World, posted on NEA's site
Kopytoff, Verne. "Brilliant or Plagiarized? College Use Sites to Expose Cheaters." The New York Times on the Web. 19 January 2000.
LeLand, Bruce. "Plagiarism and the Web."
McKenzie, Jamie. "The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age." FNO From Now On. May 1998.
McLeod, Ramon G. "Classroom Chronicles: Students Look to Internet for New Ways to Cheat." San Francisco Chronicle. 16 December 1997. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1997/12/16/MN16916.DTL
Olsen, Victoria. "Jane Eyre, To Go." Salon Ivory Tower. Salon Magazine. 13 November 1998. http://www.salonmagazine.com/it/career/1998/11/13career.html
Pearson, Gretchen. "Electronic Plagiarism Seminar." Noreen Reale Falcone Library, Le Moyne Collece, Syracuse, New York. 8 December 1999.
Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It Indiana University Bloomington
Plagiarized.com http://www.plagiarized.comRocklin, Tom. "DownloadableTerm Papers: What's a Prof. to Do?" Center for Teaching. Accessed 21 October 2002. http://www.uiowa.edu/%7Ecenteach/resources/ideas/term-paper-download.html
Ryan, Julie. "Student Plagiarism in an Online World." PRISM. December. http://www.asee.org/prism/december/html/student_plagiarism_in_an_onlin.htm
Schevitz, Tanya. "Point, Click, Plagiarize Web site Nabs UC Berkeley Students Stealing from the Net." San Francisco Chronicle. 5 November 1999.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/05/MN106690.DTL
Standler, Ronald B. "Plagiarism in Colleges in USA." 26 September 2000. http://www.rbs2.com/plag.htm
If you want extensive information on law cases dealing with plagiarism, this is the 30 page article to read.
Stebelman, Scott. "Cybercheating: Dishonesty goes Digital." American Libraries. September, 1998.
"Writing-Plagiarism Advice for Lessons." Apple Learning Interchange. Accessed 21 October 2001. http://henson.austin.apple.com/edres/ellesson/elem-writplagerism.shtml
Suggestions to help students avoid plagiarism.
Web sites that help track down plagiarism
Plagiarism.org This is one of the best. Although they charge a fee to track down a paper, there is lots for free here too. Check their "News" section for a complete list of articles about cheating on the net. Partners with Turn it In http://www.plagiarism.org
Essay Verification Engine Another pay for service that checks for plagiarism. http://www.canexus.com/eve
Turn It In http://www.turnitin.com/
Subscription based service. Students post homework to website which then checks them for plagiarism. Teachers retrieve. Excellent reviews.
Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie Protect your head from electromagnetic mind-control rays!
http://www.zapatopi.net/afdb.html
Americans for Cloning Elvis Another satire on cloning. Read the updates and have kids decide if someone really has a wart or a toenail that would make a clone of Elvis.
Ban dihydrogen Monoxide
California's Velcro Crop Under Challenge False information. This would work with students doing state or country reports.
Eternal Life Very strange site about an invention to make you live forever.
Feline Reactions to Bearded Men Great to use with science classes to show a false study
Ladies Against Women Probably best used at high school, since s-x is mentioned in this satire.
http://www.well.com/user/gail/ladies/index.html
Mankato, MN Home Page False information site about a town in Minnesota. Funny!
Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus From Lyle Zapato
Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow Torches Parody of science studies.
http://www.sci.tamucc.edu/~pmichaud/toast/
TASS.NET False information to use for site evaluation
The Taxonomy of Barney
Visit Exciting Fredericton
Worst of the Web more poor web pagesWomen and Aids Bogus info on AIDS -- great to use in a lesson plan -- very obvious I don't know how long this will be up: Martha Stewart Living: Behind Bars
Alexander, Jan and Tate, Marsha Ann. "Evaluating Web Resources" from Widener University, a web evaluation tool. Great source! Harris, Robert. "Evaluating Internet Research Sources." 17 November 1997 http://www.virtualsalt.com/evalu8it.htm ICYouSee: Information on evaluation with assignments to practice. This is an excellent resource with links to additional sites on evaluation Schrock, Kathleen. Critical Evaluation Information. Check here for links to all kinds of evaluation information. Schrock, Kathleen. Critical Evaluation Survey: Elementary School Level. 2003 http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalelem.html Schrock, Kathleen. Critical Evaluation Survey: Middle School Level. 2003 Schrock, Kathleen. Critical Evaluation Survey: Secondary School Level. 2003 http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/evalhigh.html Tillman, Hope. "Evaluating Quality on the Net." March 2003 version. http://www.tiac.net/users/hope/findqual.html Tjomsland, Patti Digital Librarian Practice Sheet
UCLA College Library Instruction Hoax? You decide
Valenza, Joyce. WebQuest About Evaluating Web Sites.
http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/evalwebstu.html
The Association for Information Media and Equipment http://www.aime.org/
fair and appropriate use of the media and equipment delivering information in a rapidly changing world.
Bakker, Connie. "Saying 'Yes' Instead of 'No': Promoting the Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia." MultiMedia Schools. May/June 2000
http://www.infotoday.com/MMSchools/may00/bakker.htm
Cartoon Licensing http://www.amuniversal.com/ups/contact_us.htm
Copyright and Fair Use: Stanford University Libraries http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Copyright Clearance Center Digital Licensing and Reprint Services http://www.copyright.com/
Copyright for Educators http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/copy.htm
Copyright Kids http://www.copyrightkids.org/
Copyright Quiz from Tech Learning http://www.techlearning.com/db_area/archives/TL/2002/10/copyright.html
Copyright Workshop from Cyberbee http://www.cyberbee.com/copyrt.html
Crash Course in Copyright http://www.utsystem.edu/ogc/intellectualproperty/cprtindx.htm
Educators Guide to Fair Use and Copyright. Education World. http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr280.shtml
Fair Use of Copyrighted Works Guidelines and additional info http://www.cetus.org/fairindex.html
Library Video Company, "Can these Videos be Shown in a Classroom?"
http://www.libraryvideo.com/articles/feature_article_sl.asp?mscssid=4D8CMFN8B7S92J8200JP4UAJME8RC3SD
four main criteria that must be met before an educator should feel comfortable in showing a videotape or DVD in their classroom
The Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC) http://www.mplc.com/index2.htm
The Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC) is an independent copyright licensing service exclusively authorized by major Hollywood motion picture studios and independent producers to grant Umbrella LicensesSM to non-profit groups, businesses and government organizations for the public performances of home videocassettes and videodiscs.
Movie Licensing http://www.movlic.com/
Movie Licensing USA provides public performance site licenses which meet the requirements of Federal Copyright Law to schools nationwide
Music in the Public Domain http://www.pdinfo.com/
Includes a 3000 song list of royalty free music. Links to additional resources are listed.
PBS Teacher Source Copyright Info http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/copyright/copyright.shtm
Permission Template Forms to use when asking to use someone else's work. http://landmark-project.com/permission1.php
10 Big Myths about copyright explained http://www.templetons.com/brad/copymyths.html
Easily understood examples.
United States Copyright Office http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/
A Visit to Copyright Bay http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay/
When Works Pass into the Public Domain http://www.unc.edu/~unclng/public-d.htm
Helping Students Cite Sources
Citation Machine Free service of David Warlick's Landmark Project. MLA and APA http://www.landmark-project.com/citation_machine/index.php
Easy Bib Free citation maker with MLA and APA http://www.easybib.com/
KnightCite Project of Hekman Library at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. Created by Justin Searls
MLA Auto Generator Download onto your computer for free. By Patrick Do
Noodle Bib http://www.noodletools.com/
Automatic formatting for bibliographic entries now has a fee. Check site for info.
Style Sheets for Citing Internet & Electronic Resources:
Humanities (MLA & Chicago), Scientific (APA & CBE), and History (Turabian)
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Style.html
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