Library FAQs: For Faculty

Librarians are available to help you help your students learn about proper citation and plagiarism. Visit Ask a Librarian to connect about what librarians can offer in this area - some possibilities include customized instruction for your class, individual help for your students, collaborating on assignments to make plagiarism less likely, or an online guide you can link to in your syllabus. We already offer the library's student guide about plagiarism and academic integrity.  The library also has a recent book that may be useful: Plagiarism in higher education: Tackling tough topics in academic integrity. 

In addition, this visual guide from Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) may be a resource you can suggest for your students.

We've also come across some games that might be useful as you look for ways to teach your students about citations: 

In the APA and MLA Citation Game, from the U of Washington, students select the citation format and source type they want to practice, and drag and drop elements into the correct order.

The Grammar Quizzes page on citations has drag and drop practice exercises for MLA citations to books, magazine articles, journal articles and other sources.  Scroll to the bottom of the page for multiple choice practice.

The Citation Game, by Nick Baker at Smith College, has a series of questions to identify references and their parts in 4 different styles.  The final page is a score report.

Goblin Threat, from the library at Lycoming College, is a fun, graphical game in which plagiarism goblins invade.  Eliminate goblins by correctly answering questions about plagiarism and how to avoid it.  At the end, students can opt to create a completion certificate.

We look forward to working with you on ways to teach your students about citations.