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CheckPoint: Detecting Plagiarism
Faculty may enforce consequences for plagiarism, such as failing the student for an assignment or for the entire course. In serious cases, faculty may choose to report instances of plagiarism to administration. To detect plagiarism, faculty members use the Plagiarism Checker, a service provided by the Center for Writing Excellence.
 Resources: University Library and Plagiarism Checker
 Retrieve “Lab Courses Go Virtual” by Thomas F. Edgar, from Gale PowerSearch™. Copy and paste the article into a Microsoft® Word document. Save it to your desktop.
 Imagine you are an instructor who received the article in an assignment, and the student claims to have written the article, but plagiarized.
 Submit the article to the Plagiarism Checker and view the results.
 Post a 200- to 300-word response as a Microsoft® Word document attachment in the Assignment section of eCampus by Week 4 Day 4 the following questions:
o What were the results of the overall similarity index?
o As the faculty member, what would be your course of action toward the student?
o How would you describe to the student why plagiarism is dishonest?
o What other types of behavior should you mention to the student that fall under the academic dishonesty guidelines?