Information Literacy Resources for Faculty and TAs

Preventing Plagiarism

Both the Library and the university offer faculty and teaching assistants a number of resources to assist in preventing and detecting plagiarism.

UCLA Resources for Faculty

UCLA has a campuswide license to Turnitin.com. Students turn their papers in electronically and the text is submitted to Turnitin.com where it is compared with a vast database of other student papers, online articles, general Web pages, and other sources. Turnitin.com then produces a report for the instructor indicating whether the paper was plagiarized and if so, how much. To access this resource, log in to MyUCLA and click on the Turnitin.com link in the left-hand column under "MyUCLA Features."

Other campus resources include:

• Faculty Guide to Academic Integrity
• Academic Dishonesty Syllabus Sheet
• Confronting Academic Dishonesty
• Reporting a Case of Academic Dishonesty

Detecting Plagiarism

• Detecting Plagiarism from the University of Alberta
• Plagiarism Detection Sites from Carolina Coastal University

Basics and Strategies

• A Faculty Guide to Cyber-Plagiarism from the University of Alberta
• Preventing Plagiarism from the University of Alberta
• Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers by Robert Harris, a writer and educator with more than twenty-five years of teaching experience at the college and university level
• Preventing Academic Dishonesty, one of UC Berkeley's Tools for Teaching
• Plagiarism and the Web from Western Illinois University

Teaching Students about Plagiarism

• Bruin Success with Less Stress: an online tutorial created by the UCLA Library
• Handouts for Students from the University of Alberta
• Proper Paraphrasing from the University of Alberta
• Common Knowledge and Quotations from the University of Alberta
• Using Sources from Hamilton College
• Avoiding Plagiarism from Purdue University
• Paraphrase: Write it in your Own Words from Purdue University