Plagiarism Prevention: Sites and Citing Sources for Detection and Prevention
Today there are a number of sites dedicated to plagiarism prevention, including those selling plagiarism detection software or providing free online services. The Plagiarism Prevention Web Guide is full of plagiarism prevention resources to help teachers, writers and editors do their work more efficiently, including free tools that can explain citations and even generate citations so that writers can avoid plagiarism in any form.
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Expand All Guide SectionsWhat Is Plagiarism?
Because of the serious consequences you could face if you're found guilty of plagiarizing another's ... read more »
How to Cite a Source
One of the best ways to avoid plagiarism is to keep track of all of your research and cite, cite, ... read more »
How to Detect Plagiarism
The following sites offer tips on learning how to detect plagiarism, as well as information on cheat sites and advice on Web site evaluation. If you have original content online, you'll also learn how to discover if someone is copying your material.
Insights for How to Detect Plagiarism
- If a student has copied text from a Web site, the easiest way to prove it is to search for the suspicious bit of text using a search engine. To do this, put the text in quotes: "Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right." (This one is actually from Henry Ford.)
- Many of the free plagiarism-detection services only search the documents or Web pages that you specify. In general, the plagiarism-detection software that searches the entire Internet for copied information must be purchased.
- If you think you've received work that has been copied, or if a detection service alerts you to this possibility, be sure to confirm that the attribution is actually missing (sometimes plagiarism-detection software won't be able to tell the difference). Also check to make sure that the work in question isn't, in fact, another copy of the person's work from a personal or school Web site.
Top Sites for How to Detect Plagiarism
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Central Queensland University
in Australia has a list of resources for understanding and preventing plagiarism. Get links to sites that can help educators find out if a work has been plagiarized, articles about plagiarism, some common "paper mills" that provide students with prewritten work and books about plagiarism.
Ethics 101: Cheating, Plagiarism, Site Evaluation, Copyright and Your Students
is a collection of links put together by a high school media specialist. Find links to some common cheat sites, information about copyright, citation resources and even links to help you teach your students how to evaluate Web sites for credibility.
For plagiarism detection services ...
Turnitin
(pronounced "turn it in") is a paid plagiarism-detection tool for academic work from iParadigms, the same company that makes iThenticate and runs Plagiarism.org. The tool helps educators check student work for plagiarized content. Students can use the tool to peer review each other's work.
To detect plagiarism of Web pages ...
Plagiarism Checker is search-engine based service that helps users learn if text has been plagiarized from an existing Web site.
Copyscape is a useful tool for publishers of web content and for instructors. This site helps you find copies of Web content . Enter your URL (or the URL of an online piece of student work) into Copyscape and it searches the Web for copies of the page. Remember, Copyscape can find duplicates of pages, it is up to you to determine which version is the original work and which version is copied.
Copyscape is a useful tool for publishers of web content and for instructors. This site helps you find copies of Web content . Enter your URL (or the URL of an online piece of student work) into Copyscape and it searches the Web for copies of the page. Remember, Copyscape can find duplicates of pages, it is up to you to determine which version is the original work and which version is copied.
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