Combating Plagiarism - Resources for Faculty  Tags: plagiarism detection online  

• Define and explain plagiarism to your students, including your policies about it. Include the Connecticut College Honor Code in your discussions.
• Don't assume that students understand the concept of intellectual property and documentation of material.
• Discuss how to document sources, both traditional and electronic.
• Provide an opportunity for your students to learn to do research.
• Establish deadlines throughout the semester for submitting topics, working bibliographies, outlines and rough drafts.
• Ask students to include copies of all sources with the final draft or ask for an annotated bibliography.
• Devise an exercise whereby the students must reflect on some aspect of their paper. Possibly an in-class essay on what they learned from writing the paper or an exam question relating the paper to some aspect of the course.

• Note any unusual formatting or any formatting which does not match your requirements.
• Does the paper "sound" like your student? Is there any word usage that would be unlikely?
• Are there quotations that have no footnote or bibliographic reference?
• Has part of the assignment been left unadressed?
• Does part of the paper seem to be inserted or added on?
• Is the bibliography in the format that you requested?
• Are the references out of date?

Search Engines
Exact phrase searching in some of the larger Internet search engines (i.e. google, Ask.com) may yield the source of a suspicious paper. Select a four to six word phrase from the paper and enclose it in quotes to search the exact phrase.