Administrators in higher-education institutions are faced with an often-conflicting landscape of laws, court cases, adopted practices, rules of thumb, and folk wisdom related to copyright concerns on their campuses. Ask any ten faculty member and receive ten different responses about what constitutes fair use, who owns content created for courses,…

In this article, the authors argue that while the term plagiarism has long been used as an unhelpful and moralistic catch-all to describe a range of textual "crimes." educators are moving into an era of both increased diversity of student populations and increased capacity to detect textual borrowings through new forms of software. To rely on the…

The historical examination of academic integrity in this monograph demonstrates that student academic conduct has always been strongly connected to faculty work, institutional structures, context, and organizational pressures. Student affairs professionals, faculty, and other campus constituents who have struggled with reducing academic misconduct…

Presents dictionary definitions of "plagiarizing" and "copyright" and discusses the difference between plagiarizing and paraphrasing, giving illustrations of each. (TJ)

Assigning enrichment articles that are of an appropriate readability level will discourage plagiarism.

There's some uncertainty about what constitutes plagiarism, especially when it involves something more subtle than stolen words. It is difficult to distinguish legitimate use of others' material--borrowing in a general fashion or drawing inspiration--from outright theft. Guidelines on identifying plagiarism are presented. (MLW)

Explains the legal issues involved in plagiarism and suggests strategies to deal with and prevent it. (JL)

Ponders plagiarism. Proposes a "personnoting page," a place where students acknowledge everyone who helped them as a way of avoiding plagiarism. (JL)

There is no lack of critical literature dealing with cyber-plagiarism and the implications for assessment in higher education. The practice of the selling of academic papers through the Internet is generally included under the category of plagiarism, although it is suggested that this ought to be considered under the separate category of…

Describes two teaching methods that use (1) oral reports to end student term paper plagiarism and (2) newspapers in business communication classes. (FL)

Suggests several ways to prevent intentional and unintentional plagiarizing by students writing research papers. Suggestions include: limiting topic choice, requiring formal research proposals including bibliography, requiring recent periodical references, and asking for an informative abstract of the paper to be written in class the day the…

Perspectives on plagiarism are offered by a university writing teacher, who also gives examples from students' papers. A number of plagiarists genuinely do not understand that they are plagiarizing; they do not understand the basics of footnoting or when it is required. While identifying a piece of writing as plagiarism may be easy, finding the…

Teachers should cite the source of a borrowed idea; professors should be as original in their presentation of material as they expect their students to be in their course papers. Instructors who allow the impression that discourse taken from others is their own are plagiarizing. (MLW)

Based on the research reported in this volume, the authors offer recommendations for all affected parties.

Recommends assigning a short research essay as a productive alternative to the large research project in the freshman writing class. (JL)