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Cyber-Plagiarism Faculty Workshop

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Exercises and content adapted by Carol A. Kelly and Kathleen Porter from a lesson developed for use in Tamalpais (CA) Untion High School District by Dr. Lesley Farmer: “Cyber-Plagiarism Faculty Workshop” Reprinted with permission from Student Cheating and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A Wake-Up Callby Ann Lathrop and Kathleen Foss. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2000.

Purpose of exercise: to empathize with students’ temptation to plagiarize and understand ease of cheating with the Internet.

It's 11:00 p.m. on Sunday evening and you have a term paper due tomorrow morning. Your teacher gave you class time to do library research, but you spent this time chatting with your friends. The paper is vital to your grade in the course and could even threaten your upcoming graduation. A friend told you about some Internet sites where you can essentially download a paper complete with bibliography. You decide that this is the path to take.

Choose one of the research topics from the list below. Your objective is to use the Internet to plagiarize a research paper. Your paper should be two to five pages in length, and include a bibliography. You can begin by using the list of web sites (URLs) listed below, or you can try using one of the search engines. Try to make your paper look as authentic as possible. You cannot spend more than a half hour on this.

Topics: Choose a topic from the list below before you begin your research.

AIDS Brain Light

UFOs The 1960's Gandhi

Henry Ford King Henry VIII Brave New World

Censorship

Marijuana Berkeley Johann Sebastian Bach

Black Hole Carl Jung Steroids

Daniel Webster Woodrow Wilson Karl Marx

Martin Luther King Catcher in the Rye Lord of the Flies

1984 African Art Oedipus

The Beatles Antibiotics Bronchitis

Nuclear Energy Hitler Revolution in Cuba

Lebanon Native Americans Glass Menagerie

Mark Twain The Great Gatsby

History of Jazz and Classical Music Leonardo DaVinci

Try one or more of the following sources to find your topic

Abcresearch.com

www.abcresearch.com

Academic Term Papers

www.academictermpapers.com

ACI Writing Assistance Center

www.aci-plus.com

Bignerds.com

www.bignerds.com

Cheathouse- The Evil House of Cheat

www.cheathouse.com

Chuckiii.com

www.chuckiii.com

College Term Papers.com

www.collegetermpapers.com

Cyber Essays

www.cyberessays.com

Essay Depot

www.essayDepot.com

Ivyessays Papers

www.ivyessays.com

Knowledge Reports

www.knowledge-reports.com

Mad Papers

Net Essays

OPPapers.com

Paper Masters

Paper Store

Papercamp.com

Papers 24-7 .

Papers Inn

Papersure: The Research Paper Center

www.papershack.com

PinkMonkey

http://www.pinkmonkey.com/

Planet Papers

www.planetpapers.com

Research Assistance

www.research-assistance.com

Research Papers Online A+

www.ezwrite.com

ResearchPaper.com

www.researchpaper.com

Schoolbytes.com

www.schoolbytes.com

Smart Essays

www.FreeEssays.com/smart/

Studentcentral—just in case you thought this was a USA problem

www.studentcentral.co.uk

Superior Termpapers

www.superior-termpapers.com

Terms n Papers

. www.termsnpapers.com

Texas Twister

http://www.members.tripod.com/~TexasTwister/

12,000 Papers.com

www.12000papers.com

Or do a keyword search, as in “free essays”

(An enterprising student could build a custom search box using as many of these sites as he could find.)

Questions for Discussion:

1. If the paper you just completed were turned in to you, would you be suspicious? Why or why not?

2. Describe the types of assignments that are most susceptible to plagiarism.

3. Describe the types of assignments that are least susceptible to plagiarism.

4. How could you change the assignment that you were just given to make it less susceptible to plagiarism?

5. Think about the research assignments that you currently give to students. What percent of these assignments are vulnerable to cybercheating? How could they be altered to make them less vulnerable?

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