Plagiarism Prevention Resources
Transition from Turnitin.com to SafeAssign
As you may have heard, SDSU will be upgrading to Blackboard 8 before the spring semester. Blackboard 8 includes several significant improvements and new features. As Turnitin users, we especially want to alert you to a plagiarism prevention tool that is now built into Blackboard, called SafeAssign.
Because SafeAssign now comes with Blackboard, and given our current budget constraints, we will not be renewing our license agreement with Turnitin.com when it expires in early February 2009. We have been in contact with a number of universities which have already made this transition and are hearing that it has been a smooth process for faculty and students. In fact, many prefer SafeAssign's opt-in provision which means that student papers are not included in a global database unless they specifically permit it.
To ease the transition, we will be providing training, coaching, and support along with online resources early in spring semester.
SDSU Resources
- SDSU Plagiarism: The crime of intellectual property by SDSU librarian Pamela Jackson
- http://infotutor.sdsu.edu/plagiarism/index.cfm
- Avoiding plagiarism at SDSU - guides for faculty to include in their Blacboard course
- http://infodome.sdsu.edu/infolit/learningpackets.shtml
- Good SDSU site to link from ITS-plagiarism website
- http://lfolkswiki.sdsu.edu/index.php/Plagiarism
SafeAssign Resources
- SafeAssign Tutorial in Blackboard - UNC demonstrates how an instructor create a SafeAssign Assignment, interprets the SA report, and how students submit their papers to SA
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gWf3pPVJ3k
- Blackboard SafeAssign Tutorial - Blackboard.com's John Morrison presents a brownbag on the use of Blackboard's new Safe Assign - drag the timeline bar to 30 minutes to start the section on SA.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLMGP6rlOj0&feature=related
External Resources
- Plagiarism: How to avoid it
- http://www.aresearchguide.com/6plagiar.html
- Integrity and plagiarism
- http://kerlins.net/bobbi/education/writing/plagiarism.html
- How to avoid Plagiarism at PSU
- Cyberplagiarism: Detection and Prevention from Penn State. Wholesale Copying, Cut & Paste, Inappropriate Paraphrase, Citation Guidelines, Practice Exercise, http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/cyberplag/cyberplagexamples.html
- Plagiarism: A Guide for ECSU Students and Faculty
- http://www.easternct.edu/smithlibrary/library1/plagiarism/plagiarism.htm
- Detecting and Preventing Classroom Cheating: Promoting Integrity in Assessment by Gregory J. Cizek
- Just published by Corwin Press -- part of the Experts in Assessment series edited by Thomas R. Guskey and Robert J. Marzano
- The Cat-and-Mouse Game of Plagiarism Detection
- Colleges provide professors with new online tools to give them the upper hand http://chronicle.com/free/v47/i43/43a02601.htm
- Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers by Robert Harris.
- http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm
- Is cheating getting worse?
- Source: Chronicle of Higher Ed Colloquy Live: An online discussion with Donald L. McCabe, one of the founders of the Center for Academic Integrity and a professor of organization management at Rutgers University at Newark, about online cheating. This colloquy is about the impact of the rapid growth of the Internet and it's relationship to a perceived rise in cheating. http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2001/07/cheat/