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Western Illinois University's Bruce Leland maintains "Plagiarism and the Web"

Plagiarism.org. Also known as turnitin.com, this site has gotten quite a bit of media attention. They produce software that detects copied papers. Here's how it works: they have compiled a huge database of papers from the internet, instructors must register with the site, then require their students to upload their work to the site for scanning, essays are cross-referenced with the database and instructors are notified of detected cases of plagiarism. There are problems with this approach. To begin, they sell their service as foolproof saying "...papers acquired from the Internet will NEVER be used to fulfill a course requirement." I have a problem with that sort of statement, clearly the problem is more complex then they present it to be. The problem is systemic - you have to address it at levels that no software can help you with. I also have some questions about the copyright and civil liberty issues raised by requiring students to submit essays to a database. That being said, plagiarism.org offers a service that many find useful.

K12Academics.com has a nice page about plagiarism.

Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (USA)

SchoolNet (Canada)

Old Dominion University Library's Research Guide

Craig Branham -> Saint Louis University -> Guide to WWW Research

How to Organize a Research Paper and Document It with MLA Citations

Kimberly Chapman's terrific guide to writing an essay

Dalhousie University's Faculty Plagiarism Guide - Very well done. I'm not happy with their use of turnitin.com, but as I said above, many find it useful.

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