Reduce Plagiarism in Classes
A Web page from Duke's Dean of Students that explains how undergraduate academic dishonesty cases are addressed.
Academic Integrity Council
The Web site of Duke's Academic Integrity Council. The Council seeks to further academic integrity at Duke. The site includes academic integrity Information for Graduate Students.
Center for Academic Integrity
The Web site of the Center for Academic Integrity, based at Duke. The Center conducts research on academic integrity and promotes best practices.
Library Research
Duke Libraries provides several ways and tools to get research help.
The Internet has brought powerful research tools to students -- ideas, maps, images and eye-witness accounts are only a click away. It has also brought temptations for sloppy work, and even outright plagiarism -- other people's thoughts, comments and words are only a cut-and-paste away. Here are a few tips for reducing plagiarism in an online environment.
Strategies
Set the right tone
The best way to address online plagiarism is to deter plagiarism in general with clear expectations and a good example. Suggestions for creating an anti-plagiarism environment can be found at:
- Promoting Academic Integrity from Duke's News & Communications
- Guidelines for Plagiarism Prevention from Plagiarism.org, a leading anti-plagiarism Web site
Use Libraries guides
Faculty can point students to Duke Libraries' guides for Avoiding Plagiarism: Practical Strategies and Citing Sources. Online! also has an excellent resources for citation styles.
Tools
Google
This online search engine provides a quick way to check if phrases have been plagiarized from the Internet. Just enter a suspicious phrase from a student's paper -- in quotation marks -- into Google's search engine. The search will list Web pages containing that exact phrase.
Plagiarism Prevention
A service from TurnItIn.com that provides -- for a fee -- a plagiarism-likelihood analysis of a student's paper, based on a search of the Internet, certain periodicals and a database of student papers.
Secure exam software
Applications such as ExamSoft or Securexam, block students from accessing unauthorized files or Web pages during online exams.
Blackboard
This online course management system at Duke has options, when administering unscheduled online tests and quizzes, for limiting time for a quiz, using a pool of randomly selected questions and not revealing correct answers upon completion.
