This document discusses internet plagiarism in classrooms. It provides statistics showing that many students admit to plagiarizing in their schoolwork. The document explores reasons for both intentional and unintentional plagiarism. It then offers strategies teachers can use to prevent plagiarism, such as ensuring students understand proper citation practices and giving unique research topics. The document also discusses resources teachers can use to detect plagiarism, such as online plagiarism checking tools and analyzing students' writing styles.

1. Internet Plagiarism in the
Classroom
By: Shelly Dunsford

2. Some statistics for you…
 “approximately 74 percent of students admit
plagiarizing at least once during the past school
year.”
 “more than half the high school students
surveyed had used material copied from the
Internet in research papers.”
 “Fifteen percent said they had turned in reports
copied entirely off the Internet -- or purchased on
the Internet.”

3. Why do students Plagiarize?
 Intentional vs.
• most common type of plagiarism
 Unintentional
• Happens in higher grades

4. Intentional Plagiarism
 Thrill/ challenge of trying to get away with
plagiarizing.
 Lack of time.
 Intimidated by/ lack of confidence in their own
work.
 Their classmates are doing it so why not do it too?

5. Unintentional Plagiarism
 They don’t know how to paraphrase.
 Mix up their own notes with notes from
their source.
 Forget to write down the bibliographical
information when researching, and can’t
find it again later.
 Confusion over expectations and what
plagiarizing is.

6. So what can we do as teachers?
 Prevention, prevention, and more
prevention

7. Preventing Intentional Plagiarism
 Susan Sieber’s ideas:
1. Use specific/ unique research topics for essays.
2. Have students do lots of brainstorming, outlining,
and prewriting within class time.
 Plagiarism.org’s ideas:
1. Tell students that their perspectives/analyses are
more important than the perspectives of other
writers.
2. Their own life experiences give a more interesting
spin on the topic than other writer’s work on the
same topic.

8. Preventing Intentional Plagiarism
continued…
 Education World suggests:
1. Taking a paper right off the internet and
grading it together as a class.

9. Preventing Unintentional Plagiarism
 Education World suggests to make sure your
students:
1. know the specific consequences for plagiarism.
2. All the different forms plagiarism can take.
3. Write the citations next to all of their notes.
4. Give them a handout with clear expectations for
citing within the assignment and in the
Bibliography

10. Preventing Unintentional Plagiarism
continued…
 Plagiarism.org suggests:
Teachers have writing workshops within class
time where students can practice skills like
paraphrasing or note taking.

11. Resources to help you with
prevention
 There are literally hundreds of ways to prevent
plagiarism so here are some websites, that I found
very useful, for you to check out if you’re looking
for more prevention strategies:
 http://www.plagiarism.org/index.html
 http://www.helium.com/knowledge/36346-plagiarism-
in-the-classroom-prevention-rather-than-detection

12. How do we detect plagiarism?
 Grammarly.com:
http://www.grammarly.com/?q=plagiarism&gclid=CKz9xZ_P9asCFUca
QgodQx7qUQ
 Viper, the plagiarism checker for Microsoft Windows:
http://www.scanmyessay.com/
 Eve Plagiarism Detection System:
http://www.canexus.com/eve/index.shtml
This one is 29.99 for unlimited use.
 Turnitin: https://www.turnitin.com/static/index.php
This is commonly used in University.
Susan Sieber suggests having students write a short in class essay so you
can get an idea/ sample of their writing style so it’s easier to pick out
plagiarism when they do larger essays/ assignments. (prevention and
detection tool)

13. References
iParadigms, LLC. (2011). Plagiarism in the Digital Age: Voices from the
Front Lines: What’s Happening in High Schools Now?. plagiarismdotORG.
Retrieved October 16th, 2011, from http://www.plagiarism.org/index.html
Kelly, Melissa. (n.d.). Integrating the Internet. About.com. Retrieved
October 14, 2011, from
http://712educators.about.com/cs/technology/a/integratetech_2.htm
Put an End to Plagiarism in Your Classroom.(n.d.). Education World.
Retrieved October 14, 2011, from
http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr390.shtml
Sieber, Susan. (Nov.1, 2010). Plagiarism in the classroom: Prevention
rather than detection. Helium. Retrieved October 16, 2011, from
http://www.helium.com/items/1999591-how-to-prevent-plagiarism-in-the-
classroom

14. Extra Resources for you:
 This article is about one teacher`s battle with
parents and students in regards to plagiarism:
http://www.edutopia.org/dispatches-beat-the-
cheat (retrieved October 18, 2011)
 More strategies for dealing with plagiarism
for Teachers:
http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm
(retrieved October 18, 2011)