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Purpose

What Do We Know?

Why Students Cheat

Term Paper Mills

Other Sources

Detecting Plagiarism

So What's A Prof To Do?

Purpose

This page is intended for Puget Sound faculty. It includes a list of links and other information about plagiarism.

What do we know about cheating and plagiarism?

  • 72% of students admit to cheating on written work.

  • 15% have submitted a paper obtained in large
    part from a term paper mill or website.

  • 52% have copied a few sentences from a website without citing the source.

  • 90% of the students using the Internet to plagiarize have also plagiarized from written sources. (The Web has ‘created’ few new cheaters - 6% of all students.)

  • The level of cheating is higher for business, engineering, and health related majors. 

  • Honor codes seem to reduce cheating.

  • Students don't find certain forms of cheating very serious.

[source: www.academicintegrity.org]

Why do students cheat?

  • Lazy (32%)

  • Grades (29%)

  • Pressures to Succeed (12%)

  • Ignorance (9%)

  • Time pressure (5%)

  • Other (13%) 

[source: www.academicintegrity.org]

Term Paper Mills
Term paper mills proliferate on the Web. Among the many that exist are:

Other Sources
In addition to term paper mills, there are other ways to cheat.

  • Course web sites
    Student papers are often included in course web sites.
  • Translations of web documents
    Use a search engine to find an article in a foreign language and then translate it into English.
  • Missing Footnotes
  • False References

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