What Should be Cited?

You Quote It, You Not It! Tutorial for students on citing sources: http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/plagiarism/

• Students should be taught from an early age to credit others for their words and ideas.

• All media must be cited: pictures, music, videos, etc.

• This includes any original material or ideas.

• Common knowledge does not have to be cited; facts that would not be known by a student should be cited.

• Personal opinion does not have to be cited

• Paraphrasing or changing a few words does not make the work someone's own.

• Creative Commons has a variety of licencing that may still require citation.

How to Tell if Students are Plagiarizing?

• If the student's language is just a little too sophisticated, pick out a phrase and put it in a search engine to see if you get any hits. It's best to put the phrase inside quotation marks.  Also search within Google Scholar.

• Use TurnitIn.

• Ask students to submit their work electronically. Check to see if they have used "web formatting" or their work is in tables, or if there are hyperlinks.

• The Platiarism Checker: http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/  - copy and paste phrases into this search engine. It will suggest sites from where work may have been copied. A similar tool is offered at http://www.plagiarismchecker.com/ .

• For documents between 20 and 100,000 words or web pages less than 888 words, try http://www.doccop.com. Note that you much register and accept their terms.
• Paper Rater offers a grammar and spelling checker that will also let you know if it feels there's a chance that you have plagiarized from another source.

   

Web Resources for Citation and Plagiarism

• The Owl at Purdue: Avoiding Plagiarism

• Ted Frick http://www.indiana.edu/~tedfrick/plag...     - has a good quiz to test your knowledge of this issue

• MLA (Modern Language Association):  www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p04_c08_o.html.

• APA (American Psychological Association) Online tutorial on the basics of APA style is provided by the American Psychological Association at www.apastyle.org/. Click on the link to "Basics" under "Most Popular".

• CMS (Chicago Manual of Style) -  University of Chicago Press information by Kate Turabian at www.press.uchicago.edu/books/turabian/turabian_citationguide.html

Evaluate web sources with Credible Sources Count! - http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/webevaluation/
Search the web better with - Searching With Success! - http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/websearching/
Learn the research process with Research it Right! - http://library.acadiau.ca/tutorials/research/