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Plagiarism can range from deliberate to accidental, from buying a paper to forgetting to cite work. This page contains helpful resources and tools on this issue.

University of Washington Policies and Resources:

• UWB Policy on Academic and Behavioral Conduct

• UWB Library: Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

Preventing Plagiarism:

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education - an NCTE document that aims to help faculty interpret the meaning of fair use.

• UWB Writing Center: Avoiding Plagiarism - a guide on how to avoid plagiarism by the Writing Center at the University of Washington Bothell.

• UWB Library: Style Guides for Citing Sources - a collection of links that explain how to properly cite in APA, CBE, CSE, and MLA by the UWB Library.

• UWB Writing Center: Citing Sources - another collection of citing guides by the UWB Writing Center.

Citation Tools:

• RefWorks - a web-based personal citation database and bibliography creator that allows you to import, store, and share your research citations and automatically formats your bibliographies into whatever style you need (APA, MLA, Chicago, and many more).

• Zotero - a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources.

Identifying Plagiarism:

• Turnitin - a for-cost online plagiarism-detection service that compares the submitted word documents of students to data found on the internet as well as many other electronic databases.

• WCopyfind - a free software application by a Lou Bloomfield, a University of Virginia professor, that checks for pairs of similar document files in a selected folder.

• Moss - a free software application that checks software code for plagiarism.