The Search for a Cure:
Understanding the "Plagiarism Epidemic"

Rebecca Moore Howard
Syracuse University

Recommended Reading

Bates, Peggy, and Margaret Fain.  "Internet Paper Mills."  Kimbel Library, Coastal Carolina University.  30 March 2003.  <http://www.coastal.edu/library/mills2.htm>. 

Buranen, Lise, and Alice M. Roy, eds.  Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World.  Albany, NY:  SUNY P, 1999. 

Council of Writing Program Administrators.  "Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism:  WPA Statement on Best Policies."  Council of Writing Program Administrators, January 2003. <http://www.ilstu.edu/~ddhesse/wpa/>. 

Dehnart, Andy.  "The Web's Plagiarism Police."  Salon 14 June 1999.  <http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/06/14/plagiarism/print.html>. 

DeVoss, Dānielle, and Annette C. Rosati.  "'It Wasn't Me, Was It?' Plagiarism and the Web." Computers and Composition 19.2 (August 2002):  191-203. 

Dryden, L.M.  "A Distant Mirror or Through the Looking Glass?  Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in Japanese Education."  Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World.  Ed. Lise Buranen and Alice M. Roy.  Albany, NY:  SUNY P, 1999.  75-86. 

Eodice, Michele, and Cindy Plerard.  "Surfing for Scholarship:  Promoting More Effective Student Web Research."  The National Teaching and Learning Forum 11.3 (2002):  2-7. 

Foster, Andrea L.  "Plagiarism-Detection Tool Creates Legal Quandary."  The Chronicle of Higher Education (17 May 2002):  A37. 

Glasner, Joanna.  "Where Cheaters Often Prosper."  Wired 26 August 2002 <http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,54571,00.html>.

Gordon, Jay L..  "One Teacher's Solution:  Assign Essays that Can't be Bought."  English Journal 91.2 (November 2001):  26-29. 

Hansen, Brian. "Combating Plagiarism: The Issues." CQ Researcher 13.32 (19 September 2003): 775-796.
http://library.cqpress.com/images/cqres/pdfs/color/cqr20030919C.pdf

Hapke, Gail.  "Preventing Plagiarism:  A Pedagogical Approach."  Teaching Composition.  McGraw-Hill.  n.d.  <http://auth.mhhe.com/socscience/english/tc/pt/plagiarism.htm>. 

Hertz, Neil.  "Two Extravagant Teachings."  Yale French Studies 63 (1982):  59-71.

Howard, Rebecca Moore.  "Forget about Policing Plagiarism;  Just Teach."  The Chronicle of Higher Education (16 November 2001):  B24. 

Howard, Rebecca Moore.  Standing in the Shadow of Giants:  Plagiarists, Authors, Collaborators.  Stamford, CT:  Ablex, 1999. 

Hull, Glynda, and Mike Rose.  "Rethinking Remediation:  Toward a Social-Cognitive Understanding of Problematic Reading and Writing."  Written Communication 6.2 (1989):  139-54.

Kellogg, Alex P.  "Students Plagiarize Less Than Many Think, a New Study Finds."  Chronicle of Higher Education (1 February 2002).  <http://chronicle.com/free/2002/02/2002020101t.htm>.  4 February 2002. 

Kitalong, Karla Saari.  "A Web of Symbolic Violence."  Computers and Composition 15.2 (1998):  253-264. 

Klausman, Jeffrey.  "Teaching About Plagiarism in the Age of the Internet."  Teaching English in the Two-Year College 27.2 (December 1999):  209-212. 

Kraus, Joe.  "Rethinking Plagiarism:  What Our Students Are Telling Us When They Cheat."  Issues in Writing 13.1 (2002):  80-95.

Lunsford, Andrea A., and Susan West.  "Intellectual Property and Composition Studies."  College Composition and Communication 47.3 (October 1996):  383-411. 

Mahoney, Deirdre.  "Strategies for Discouraging Plagiarism."  Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition.  Ed. Duane Roen, Veronica Pantoja, Lauren Yena, Susan K. Miller, and Eric Waggoner. Urbana, IL:  NCTE, 2002.  224-225. 

Minock, Mary.  "Toward a Postmodern Pedagogy of Imitation."  JAC:  A Journal of Composition Theory 15.3 (Fall 1995):  489-510. 

"Plagiarism—And How to Avoid It!"  Drew University Composition Program.  1998-1999.  <http://www.depts.drew.edu/composition/Avoiding_Plagiarism.htm#top>. 

Posner, Richard A.  "The Truth about Plagiarism."  New York Newsday 18 May 2003.  <http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vppos183290081may18,0,7059434.story>. 

Price, Margaret.  "Beyond 'Gotcha!':  Situating Plagiarism in Policy and Pedagogy."  College Composition and Communication 54.1 (September 2002):  88-115. 

Randall, Marilyn.  Pragmatic Plagiarism:  Authorship, Profit, and Power.  U Toronto P, 2001. 

Simmons, Sue Carter.  "Competing Notions of Authorship:  A Historical Look at Students and Textbooks on Plagiarism and Cheating."  Perspectives on Plagiarism and Intellectual Property in a Postmodern World.  Ed. Lise Buranen and Alice M. Roy.  Albany, NY:  SUNY P, 1999.  41-54. 

Spigelman, Candace.  "Lessons from Forrester:  Nurturing Student Writing in a Climate of Suspicion."  Issues in Writing 13.1 (2002):  27-57.

Taylor, Lynn.  "Understanding Plagiarism."  Issues of Teaching and Learning 9.2 (March 2003).  <http://www.catl.uwa.edu.au/NEWSLETTER/issue0203/>.

Whiteman, Sherri A.  "One Teacher's Frustration."  English Journal 91.2 (November 2001):  25-26. 

Woodmansee, Martha, and Peter Jaszi, eds.  The Construction of Authorship:  Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature.  Durham:  Duke UP, 1993.

Young, Jeffrey R.  "Anti-Plagiarism Experts Raise Questions about Services with Links to Sites Selling Papers."  The Chronicle of Higher Education (12 March 2002).  <http://chronicle.com/free/2002/03/2002031201t.htm>.

 

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