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Plagiarism
Contents 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: Cyber Essays "...your one-stop source for free, high-quality term papers, essays, and reports on all subjects." discount Paper Camp Free quality essays, reports, term papers, and research papers. Custom writing service on any subject is available for a fee. EssayCrawler A portal site for essays, term papers, and book reports. This engine searches only free essay sites. Evil House of Cheat A site that boasts more than 9,500 papers, as well as hyperlinks to other mills. Often busy. Free Essay Network A network of sites that provide essays, term papers, and reports for students. Net Essays Free term papers and essays for students by students 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 Smart Essays A selection of papers and essays organized into categories Term Papers Term Paper Sites Thousands of papers for sale 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