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Plagiarism Resources
This page is divided into two sections. The first section presents a tutorial on SafeAssignment, a plagiarism detection tool at available via myUSF (Blackboard). The second section presents a tutorial on plagiarism that attempts to teach students and inform instructors about the differences between plagiarism and paraphrasing. SafeAssignment - Tutorial Introduction
USF has recently purchased a Plagiarism detection tool called SafeAssignment. SafeAssignment is an automated plagiarism detection system designed to work in conjunction with myUSF (Blackboard). Every student paper submitted to myUSF via this tool automatically undergoes a search through the Internet and a number of internal and external document databases for signs of plagiarism. The following tutorial was developed by the Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence and focuses on SafeAssignment. Click the following link to access the SafeAssignment tutorial: http://www.cte.usf.edu/plagiarism/sa/index.html Click the following link to download the SafeAssignment step-by-step handout: http://www.cte.usf.edu/plagiarism/sa.pdf (218KB PDF). You will need the Acrobat Reader to view the above document (click here to download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader software if you do not have it).
This tutorial was developed by Dr. Eleanour Snow in collaboration with Neil Gomes, Cacilda Barros, and Sayed Alkhabbaz of the Center for 21st Century Teaching Excellence and Media Innovation Team at USF. This tutorial is divided into sections and some of these sections contain presentations, simulations, and quizzes that inform you about plagiarism. The table of contents for this tutorial is presented on this page. You will need the Flash Player to view some sections of this tutorial (click here to download the free Flash Player). You also have the option to download the content of this tutorial as a PDF file in section 9. The tutorial can be viewed in two ways. You may view the tutorial from beginning to end (composite) by clicking the following link, or you could view separate sections using the table of contents below. The link to the composite (and latest version of the) tutorial is: If some of the links do not open on your computer, please check to see if your computer is blocking pop-ups or flash content. If you are using Windows XP with Service Pack 2, you might have the pop-up blocker enabled. If a link does not open, first check to see if the browser has a yellow line below the address bar informing you that a pop-up/flash content has been blocked. If you see the line, left-click it and select "Always Allow Pop-ups from this Site" from the drop-down menu. If you have external pop-up blocker software installed on your computer, you may have to adjust it so that it allows pop-ups from this site.
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This tutorial is designed to teach students and inform instructors about the difference between plagiarism and paraphrasing. It focuses primarily on the use of web-resources in student research. It contains examples of proper and improper student writing, with clear explanations on why the writing is acceptable or unacceptable.