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• Catching Digital Cheaters
  • This site is part of the Educational Cyberplayground, which offers resources for educators. Available are lists of links, most with brief annotations, for Web sites that are used for plagiarism, sites that are dedicated to fighting plagiarism amd resources for students, including K-12 and higher education.

• Hamilton College Writing Center: Avoiding Plagiarism
  • This concise page from the Hamilton College Writing Center offers advice on how to avoid plagiarism, and provides specific examples for writers.

• Plagiarism: What It is and How to Recognize and Avoid It
  • This page, from Writing Tutorial Services at Indiana University, Bloomington, offers explanations of what constitutes plagiarism and specific examples to illustrate points. Topics addressed include how to avoid plagiarism, recognizing unacceptable paraphrasing, and strategies to help avoid plagiarism.

• Purdue University Online Writing Lab: Avoiding Plagiarism
  • OWL, the Purdue University Online Writing Lab, sponsors this site to help students decide when and how to document sources. Information is presented in a series of tables that give examples of when to document sources, and when documentation is not required.

• The Ultimate Plagiarism Resource: Detecting Plagiarism and Preventing It
  • "Plagiarism is one of academia's most common problems and a constant concern for teachers. While the Web may have made plagiarism as easy as a few simple clicks, it's also made detecting plagiarism just as easy. If a student can find the essay in seconds, so can you-if you know where to look. This comprehensive resource will tell you everything you need to know about plagiarism, from the basic facts to free detection tools to preventing it in both the physical and online classroom. "

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