Anti-Plagerism Resources

• a "hit list" to keep an eye on or to use when investigating potential plagarism: http://www.greensboroday.org/lwl.htm
• Tip for finding plagiarized phrases in term papers:
  Go to HOTBOT (http://www.hotbot.com)
  Use the 'all the words' search capability and put in a fairly unique phrase from the suspect paper.

• The Bad Guys (A Partial List)
  • Schoolsucks.com - Free papers for download (http://www.schoolsucks.com/)
  • The Jungle Page- Essays and Papers for sale (http://www.junglepage.com/asp/index.asp)
  • Research Papers Online - Essays and Research in MLA format for a fee (http://ezwrite.com/)
  • StudentU.com - ( http://www.studentu.com/main.asp?nologin=true)
    Student notes, chapter by chapter book summaries online, and other "student services." Recently reported upon by the New York Times.
• The Good Guys
  • Plagiarism.org (http://www.plagiarism.org/)
    "Started by a number of Cal graduate students, Plagiarism.org uses a growing database of papers and a complex series of mathematical formulas to determine the likelihood that a paper was plagiarized. The service generates a report that a professor or administrator can use when confronting a student suspected of cheating. The report analyzes the structure of the paper as well as its content. Plagiarism.org co-founder Christian Storm claims the system can raise a red flag even when as much as 45 percent of the wording has been changed from an original document. The report even pinpoints exactly where the ripped-off material came from, by providing links to online documents lifted by the plagiarizer." (The San Francisco Chronicle, The Net Cheaters, May 3, 1999)
  • Integriguard.com (http://www.integriguard.com/)
    An online database of over 25,000 papers that will analyze student papers for matches sentence by sentence. Six month free memberships offered to educators.
  • A plagiarism page by Bruce Leland, Professor of English at Western Illinois University (http://http.ecn.bgu.edu/users/mfbhl/) with a longer list of Bad Guys and some suggestions for educators
  • Duke University Writing Program page on plagiarism- definitions of it and how to avoid it (http://uwp.duke.edu/sources.html)