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Advice about Plagiarism

The IH program takes plagiarism and academic cheating very seriously. We have provided the following resources to help you avoid plagiarism in writing your papers.

Academic Honesty in First-Year Writing and Intellectual Heritage Courses:  Policies and Practices

The First-Year Writing Program, the Intellectual Heritage Program and the Writing Center work together to address the problem of academic honesty among our students.  Our goal is to enable faculty to send a unified and consistent message to students about this difficult topic. 

To this end, we have written this following statements, which includes an overview on plagiarism and academic cheating, followed by comments on ways prevent and detect plagiarism, on  sanctions, and on the pedagogy of collaboration in the writing center. 

The basic Temple University policy statement on academic integrity, last updated in September 2006, can be found here.

This edition of this pamphlet was completed on August 16, 2002.  It will be updated periodically.

Dennis Lebofsky, First-Year Writing      
Gary Pratt, Intellectual Heritage Program
Lyn Tribble, Department of English
Daniel P. Tompkins, Intellectual Heritage Program
Lori Salem, Tuttleman Writing Center

Plagiarism and Academic Cheating  by Lyn Tribble, Department of English

Preventing Plagiarism by Gary Pratt, Intellectual Heritage Program

Detecting Plagiarism by Dennis Lebofsky, Director, First-Year Writing Program, and Lyn Tribble, Department of English    

Sanctions:  Plagiarism and the University Disciplinary Committee by Dan Tompkins,

The Pedagogy of Collaboration in the Tuttleman Writing Center by Lori Salem, Director, The Writing Center

IH Director's Statement on Plagiarism

University Bulletin statement on Plagiarism and Academic Cheating

Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers by Robert Harris. The world wide web makes it easier for students to plagiarize their papers. But it also makes it easy for teachers to detect plagiarism. This page explains how teachers detect plagiarism.