It is sometimes easy to be tempted to copy a text illegitimately even if that was not intention from the beginning. The reasons for this differ. A careless mistake or uncertainty of what is allowed and not might be the most common reasons for plagiarism. Of course one might also deliberately copy a text and than wish for the teachers to fail in detecting it– but this is fortunate enough very rare. In order to help students and teachers avoid making misstakes we have developed a text describing what plagiarism is. It is free to download for use within schools and academic organisations that are subscribers of the URKUND system.

If you as a teacher/professor would like to copy or re-write parts of this material or if you as a teacher/professor would like to use it even though your organisation is not a client with us, please contact us and we will help you out.

The URKUND Plagiarism handbook

KTHs handbook

Jude Carroll at Oxford Brookes University and Carl-Mikael Zetterling at KTH have authored a handbook in order to help students avoid plagiarism. It is availiable in both English and Swedish through KTH's webb.