What are the instructor's goals?

l To catch plagiarists?

l To test students' ethics?

l To make it impossible for students to plagiarize?

l To teach textual standards?

l To teach critical reading skills?

l To teach students how to write from sources?

l To engage students in the course so they won't want to plagiarize?

l To guide students through a successful writing experience?

l To teach skills in finding and synthesizing research sources, especially peer-reviewed sources?

Helpful websites for assignment design

l 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/.

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

l Harris, Robert. "Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers." 7 March 2002. http://www.virtualsalt.com/antiplag.htm

l Howard, Rebecca Moore. "Forget about Policing Plagiarism; Just Teach." The Chronicle of Higher Education (16 November 2001): B24. http://leeds.bates.edu/cbb/events/docs/Howard_ForgeT.pdf.

l "Preventing Plagiarism." University of Alberta Libraries. http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/preventing/index.cfm

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

l Washington State University: http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/electric/trainingmods/plagiarism_test/teaching1.html