Stopping PLAGIARISM
Quick guide - How to USE IT

•	 What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism involves the use of others' ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information. 

To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you 

•	quote from someone's actual spoken or written words 
•	use another person's ideas, opinions, or theories in an assignment or essay 
•	make use of pieces of information, such as statistics, graphs, drawings, that are not common knowledge 
•	paraphrase another person's spoken or written words

•	 How can you avoid unintentional plagiarism?

•	Use quotation marks around everything that comes directly from a text or article 
•	Try to summarise ideas and arguments in your own words - don't just rearrange a few words here and there 
•	Check that you have correctly paraphrased the original ideas 
•	Check your summary against the original text

•	 What Web resources are there on stopping plagiarism?

The following sites may be of interest ~

Plagiarism.
org	http://www.plagiarism.org/	The site claims to offer the document source analysis tools needed to detect plagiarism in the digital age.	
Anti-Plagiarism Strategies	http://www.vanguard.edu/
rharris/antiplag.htm	A useful set of anti-plagiarism strategies for research papers, by Robert Harris of the Vanguard University of Southern California. Harris provides an eight-point plan for setting unique assignments that make plagiarism virtually impossible for students.	
Internet Plagiarism:      strategies to deter academic misconduct	http://www.mtsu.edu/
~itconf/proceed98/
mhricko.html	Scholarly article by a librarian, with links to related material.	
Glatt Plagiarism Program	http://www.plagiarism.com/	The site offers a tutorial on what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoid it, as well as a screening program to detect plagiarism, which can be used in academia or in legal cases of copyright
infringement.	
Plagiarism	http://www.indiana.edu/
~wts/wts/plagiarism.html	Plagiarism: what it is and how to recognise and avoid it from Writing Tutorial Services, the writing centre at Indiana University Bloomington, USA.	
Avoiding Plagiarism	http://sja.ucdavis.edu/SJA/
plagiarism.html	Explanations and advice on avoiding plagiarism from Student Judicial Affairs, at the University of California, Davis.	
Online Plagiarism	http://alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/
~janicke/plagiary.htm	Cut-and-paste plagiarism: preventing, detecting and tracking online plagiarism	
Plagiarism in Colleges in the USA	http://www.rbs2.com/
plag.htm  	Comprehensive site with many links on this issue.	
Plagiarism and the Web		http://www.wiu.edu/users/
mfbhl/wiu/plagiarism.htm 
	Includes links to 'paper mills' where students can get assignments and papers.	
Avoiding Plagiarism	http://www.hamilton.edu/academics/resource/wc/
AvoidingPlagiarism.html	Advice and examples from Hamilton College, New York, USA.	
Plagiarism and Anti-Plagiarism	http://andromeda.rutgers.
edu/~ehrlich/plagiarism598.html	Includes links to useful webpages for detecting and fighting plagiarism.	
Plagiarism Theme Page	http://www.cln.org/themes/
plagiarism.html	Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content) and reference materials to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are also links to instructional materials (lesson
plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme.	
Resources for Teaching -Plagiarism 	http://www.albany.edu/cetl/
resources/plagiarism.html	Includes sections on the definition and avoidance of plagiarism, papers and commentaries on plagiarism, preventative websites, anti-plagiarism software and links to assignment and paper "dealers".	
Avoiding Plagiarism	http://perth.uwlax.edu/
murphylibrary/plagiarism.
html	Includes links to a range of anti-plagiarism sites.	

 Ask at the Information Desk in any Branch Library or check the Library’s Web Page ~

http://www.library.uq.edu.au/useit/