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- Tools for Teaching - Preventing Academic Dishonesty - Ideas are designed to help impart to students the values of academic honesty and to help set policies that encourage academic integrity.
- TOPICS Online Magazine for ESL - Academic Dishonesty (Cheating) - Tutorial of sorts intended primarily for adult ESL students. Includes vocabulary and idioms, photo essay demonstrating cheating techniques, hypothetical situations, a poll, and real-life stories.
- Plagiarism.org - Online service for preventing plagiarism, deterring scholarly dishonesty and cheating, and raising academic ethics. Detects plagiarized papers by comparing with submitted papers and papers from online term paper mills.
- Plagiarism and Academic Integrity - A production of the Rutgers University Libraries. An interactive lesson designed to teach students about avoiding infractions of academic integrity policies and instances of plagiarism. Requires the Flash plugin; best accessed over a fast connection.
- Academe - Dishonesty in the Academy - Detailed discussion and list of dishonest academic behavior, proposed solutions.
- Center for Academic Integrity - Provides a forum to identify, affirm, and promote the values of academic integrity among students. It is affiliated with the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.
- Thinking About Plagiarism - Teaching students how to handle sources, along with regular discussions (not harangues) in courses about plagiarism, cheating, and academic honesty are better pedagogic alternatives to constant policing. Provides annotated links to many resources for assignment design and understanding plagiarism.
- Catching Computer Science Cheaters (Wired News) - Academic plagiarism has long been a problem in computer science faculties, but instructors and other university staff are increasingly turning to a series of free, Web-based tools to ferret out plagiarized code and catch cheaters.
- Internet Plagiarism: Strategies to Deter Academic Misconduct - Article about plagiarism. Some good links.
- Cheating: An Epidemic - Short article about academic cheating from about.com
Wikipedia Articles
- Academic dishonesty - Academic dishonesty or academic misconduct is any type of cheating that occurs in relation to a formal academic exercise. It can include:
- Essay mill - ... for a type of ghostwriting service which specializes in the sale of essays, term papers, and other forms of homework assignments to university and college students. Students who purchase essays and term papers purchased from essay mills and then submit them as their own work are engaging in academic dishonesty or academic fraud.
- Contract cheating - Contract cheating is a form of academic dishonesty which was observed in 2006 by Thomas Lancaster Thomas Lancaster bio and Robert Clarke Robert Clarke bio at the University of Central England in Birmingham, in which students get others to complete their coursework for them by putting it out to tender.