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Course Policies

Plagiarism and cheating

This section should include an abbreviated version of the SFSU Student Code of Conduct

Define plagiarism and cheating and describe the consequences for students who do not comply with university regulations.

Students have free access to the Internet: cutting and pasting sentences, paragraphs, and even term papers is very common. Often students are ignorant of what constitutes plagiarism, especially from the Internet.

Articles on plagiarism

Read this San Francisco Chronicle article on plagiarism in schools.

This Christian Science Monitor article discusses ways you can prevent plagiarism.

For more suggestions to help your students avoid plagiarism, read these articles from the May 1998 edition of From Now On: The Educational Technology Journal.

Detecting plagiarism

Several software programs can help you find plagiarized material; however, they do cost money.

Check with your department to see if it or the university subscribes to such a service.

Here are two examples:

Referencing

For reference and written style, refer to the online version of Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr.

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