Contents
Purpose
What
Do We Know?
Why
Students Cheat
Term Paper Mills
Other Sources
Detecting Plagiarism
So What's A Prof To Do?
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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?
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72% of students admit to cheating on
written work.
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15% have submitted a paper obtained in
large
part from a term paper mill or website.
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52% have copied a few sentences from a
website without citing the source.
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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.)
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The level of cheating is higher for
business, engineering, and health related majors.
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Honor codes seem to reduce cheating.
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Students don't find certain forms of
cheating very serious.
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[source: www.academicintegrity.org]
Why
do students cheat?
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Lazy (32%)
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Grades (29%)
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Pressures to Succeed (12%)
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Ignorance (9%)
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Time pressure (5%)
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Other (13%)
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[source: www.academicintegrity.org]
Term Paper Mills Term paper mills proliferate on the Web. Among the many that exist are:
 | Cyber Essays
"...your one-stop source for free,
high-quality term papers, essays, and reports
on all subjects."
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discount Paper Camp
Free quality essays, reports, term papers, and research papers. Custom writing service on any subject is available for a fee.
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 | EssayCrawler
A portal site for essays, term papers, and book reports. This engine searches only free essay sites.
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 | Evil House of Cheat
A site that boasts more than 9,500 papers, as well as hyperlinks to other mills.
Often busy.
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 | Free Essay Network
A network of sites that provide essays, term papers, and reports for students.
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 | Net Essays
Free term papers and essays for students by students
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 | Research Assistance
a fee based service |
 | Research Papers Online
a fee based service |
 | School Sucks
Posts hundreds of term papers for students to download for free
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 | Smart Essays
A selection of papers and essays organized into categories
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 | Term Papers |
 | Term Paper Sites
Thousands of papers for sale
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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.
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 | Translations of web documents
Use a search engine to find an article in a foreign language and then translate it into English.
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 | Missing Footnotes
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 | False References
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