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Plagiarism and Anti-plagiarism
Rutger's University offers an engaging discussion on the dilemma from the faculty perspective and provides possible countermeasures.

Copy These Strategies to Stop Plagiarism by Students
Houston Chronicle. September 1997
Gary M. Galles
Professor Galles provides advice on how to design assignments that discourage plagiarism.

What Can We Do to Curb Student Cheating?
Education World. 2000
Sharon Cromwell
While geared toward the high school educator, this article provides information and advice that is certainly relevant to higher ed.  The discussion addresses the new face of plagiarism in the age of the internet as well as methods teachers can adapt to prevent cybercheating.

Student Plagiarism in an Online World
Prism Magazine. December 1998
Julie J.C.H. Ryan
Ryan says it best: "The proliferation of webpages and electronic publications makes plagiarism easier to accomplish and harder to recognize. Here are some tools to help you expose cybercheaters."

New research on academic integrity: The success of "modified" honor codes
College Administration Publications
An interview with Donald L. McCabe, Professor of Organization Management at Rutgers University, who has been acknowledged as the country's leading researcher of plagiarism and other issues of academic integrity.

ACW-L Plagiarism Thread
Kairos. Spring 1998
Bill Marsh
Faculty respond to a teacher's query: "If a teaching professional suspects that a research paper, whether in whole or in part, has been plagiarized, what should s/he do and why?"

Survey: Many Students Say Cheating Is OK
CNN.com
CNN reports on current student views of plagiarism: "Student Alice Newhall says academic pressure has made cheating a way to survive high school."

The Center for Academic Integrity Research
"On most campuses, over 75% of students admit to some cheating. In a 1999 survey of 2,100 students on 21 campuses across the country, about one-third of the participating students admitted to serious test cheating and half admitted to one or more instances of serious cheating on written assignments."  This is just one of the many disturbing findings published in this researched report by  Donald L. McCabe of Rutgers University.

The New Plagiarism: Seven Antidotes to Prevent Highway Robbery in an Electronic Age
From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal. May 1998
Jamie Mc Kenzie
According to the author, these seven antidotes are meant to "cut off the virulent new strain of plagiarism before it becomes an academic plague."
Discussion addresses a variety of dynamics from assignment design to assessment.

Plagiarism in Colleges in U.S.A.
Copyright 2000
Ronald B. Standler
"This essay discusses plagiarism from a legal perspective."  Article discusses copyright law and cites litigation of academic plagiarism (including cases of professors who plagiarize!).

Sexuality, Sexuality: The Cultural Work of Plagiarism
College English. Volume 62. March 2000
Rebecca Moore Howard
Howard unpacks "plagiarism" and "originality" as academic concepts and complicates traditional notions of plagiarism and student writing.  Includes an extensive works cited resource list.

"Dead doll humility"
Postmodern Culture & the Johns Hopkins University Press
Kathy Acker
Acker's meta-narrative features a text stealing doll at the same time Acker borrows freely from Harold Robbins and other authors.  

Downloadable Term Papers: What’s a Prof. to Do? 
Tom Rocklin
Center for Teaching
University of Iowa
Though much has changed since this was written in 1996, much is still the same. This article has not been updated.

Four Reasons to Be Happy about Internet Plagiarism
Russell Hunt
St. Thomas University
From an academic who believes that “the challenge of easier and more convenient plagiarism is to be welcomed”.

Beyond “Gotcha!”: Situating Plagiarism in Policy and Pedagogy
Margaret Price

Teaching about Plagiarism in the Age of the Internet
Klausman, Jeffrey.
Teaching English in the Two-Year College 27.2 (December 1999): 209–212.
 

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