Plagiarism detection

 Plagiarism detection


Discuss and define plagiarism when giving the assignment. Plagiarism is often an honest mistake. Many students genuinely don’t understand what needs to be quoted. When you explain the assignment, take time to give students a lesson about what constitutes plagiarism.[11] [12]

  • You can say something like, “Anything that is not general knowledge, or your own idea needs a citation. Direct quotes and statistics must always have a citation.”
  • If your school has a policy on plagiarism, include it in your syllabus. If necessary, you can write your own.

  • Run a Google search to easily check a small section of the paper. If you come across a sentence or paragraph that you think might be plagiarized, you can easily check it out using Google. Simply copy and paste the section of writing you want to check into the search bar of Google. Put quotation marks at the beginning and end of the passage so that your search will turn up that exact wording.
    • This is a simple and free way to check for plagiarism.[1]
    • If you find that it is a case of plagiarism, make sure to save the link to the site where you found the original source.
    • Use free online applications to check electronic documents. There are many free websites that will check for plagiarism, and they are typically more thorough than a basic Google search. You can search online for free plagiarism checkers. Once you choose a site to use, you can copy and paste the text that you want to check into the site. Many sites will also allow you to upload an entire document to be checked. Some popular sites are:[2] [3]
      • Dupli Checker
      • PaperRater
      • Plagiarism
    • Check references to see if they are out of date or formatted wrong. Old sources might indicate that a student copied information from an older paper or article. Of course, if you are teaching history, students might not be using a lot of recent sources. But for most topics, the newer the information, the better. Check the source to see if the student might have used it to plagiarize.[7]
      • If you require APA formatting and the student uses Chicago, for example, that is a sign that they might have copied the sources from another paper or site Plagiarism detect

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