• Several authors have published on the topic of preventing plagiarism.distinctive books image by Chad McDermott from Fotolia.com
  
  Teachers, administrators and parents looking for resource materials on how to help students avoid plagiarism can choose from several books published on the subject. Books about plagiarism prevention range from those with teachers as their specific audience, to those directed to helping students learn what plagiarism is and how to refrain from it in their written work, to those which address a variety of audiences with a vested interest in improving academic integrity.
  
  

Plagiarism: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It

• Tennessee teacher Barry Gilmore's "Plagiarism: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It" offers teachers guidance on how to detect plagiarism and how to confront students on academic dishonesty. Gilmore also provides teachers with prewriting and research strategies to use with students that can help prevent plagiarism in the first place.
  
  

Plagiarism: A How-Not-to Guide for Students

• The follow-up to 2008's "Plagiarism: Why It Happens and How to Prevent It," Gilmore's Plagiarism: A How-Not-to Guide for Students switches the focus to addressing students about plagiarism. Gilmore provides case studies, MLA and APA style guidelines and definitions of what constitutes common knowledge as a means to help students avoid plagiarism and raise their ethical awareness.
  
  

Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques

• Lauren Hennessey DeSena's "Preventing Plagiarism: Tips and Techniques," published by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), "argues for creating assignments that emphasize students' original thinking through freewriting and the use of primary sources," according to a description on NCTE's website. The book is geared toward both high school and college instructors.
  
  

Guiding Students from Cheating and Plagiarism to Honesty and Integrity: Strategies for Change

• "Guiding Students from Cheating and Plagiarism to Honesty and Integrity: Strategies for Change," by Ann Lathrop and Kathleen Foss, offers teachers, administrators, parents and students strategies for working toward a culture of academic honesty in schools that would preclude instances of cheating and plagiarism. To this end, the book includes several pages that may be copied and distributed throughout school communities with proper attribution.
  
  

What Every Student Should Know About Avoiding Plagiarism

• Linda Stern's "What Every Student Should Know About Avoiding Plagiarism" gives students practical tips on how and why to avoid both intentional plagiarism (downloading papers from online paper mill sites, for example) and unintentional plagiarism (such as forgetting to use quotation marks when using exact words from a source). The book is part of Pearson Publishing's "What Every Student Should Know About" (WESSKA) series.