1. Plagiarism Lindsay Freebourn Mikey Selvitella Emma Fillenwarth

2. Plagiarism  Plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own.

3. Statistics  According to Plagiarism.org, “59% of high school students admitted cheating on a test during the last year. 34% self- reported doing it more than two times.”  According to Edudemic, “Between 2010 and 2011, over 35 million papers were submitted to turnitin.com. There were over 128 million content matches from these papers on the web. That represents about 3.7 content matches per paper submitted!”

6. Great Plagiarism Websites

7. Grammarly.com Grammarly.com is an automatic proofreader and plagiarism checker. It corrects up to 10 times as many mistakes as other word processors.

8. Writecheck.turnitin.com Writecheck is a plagiarism checker as well as a grammar checker and offers tutoring. It offers instant analysis of similar content, citations, and sources; it provides easy to understand results; and uses the same technology as Turnitin. This site is used by 30+ million students.

9. Twitter Follow @PlagiarismDtOrg for information on plagiarism prevention and information on proper citation.

10. References Plagiarism.org (2014). Facts & Stats. Retrieved from http://www.plagiarism.org/resources/facts-and-stats/ Edudemic (2013). The Current State of Plagiarism in Education. Retrieved from http://www.edudemic.com/plagiarism-in-education/ MrsVeselkas-PlagiarismPages (2014). Plagiarism Statistics. Retrieved from http://mrsveselkas-plagiarismpages.wikispaces.com/Plagiarism+Statistics Stopstealingnow (2014). Plagiarism in the USA. Retrieved from http://stopstealingnow.wikispaces.com/4.+Plagiarism+in+the+USA Grammarly (2014). The World’s Best Grammar Checker. Retrieved from http://www.grammarly.com/?q=brand&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&u tm_campaign=Brand&utm_content=28976363406&utm_term=grammarly&matchtype=e&place ment=&network=g&gclid=CLjh79nZzb0CFewRMwodCGYAow WriteCheck (2014). Improve Your Writing. Retrieved from http://en.writecheck.com/