Here, then, are a few tracing strategies. Students use inaccurate and concocted references to lend an air of authority or an appearance of substantiality. The trouble is, bad references are often difficult to detect because of the labor involved. Here's a suggestion for dealing with that. The chart below summarizes a procedure by which pre-verified good and bad references are given to students to check out.
Students pilfer articles from a bewildering variety of sources.
There are thousands of legitimate articles to purloin and more than one hundred online sites brazenly offer pre-written papers for free. Worse still, Web-based entrepreneurs, some of whom claim to be professors with Ph. D.'s, write papers for hire. Primarily by using the Web to combat Web based plagiarism. For those on the cusp, however, how we teach and assess can be decisive. Here, in very broad outline, are instructional and evaluative steps teachers can take that minimize cheating.