What is a website that I can go to that would help me detect plagiarism?

Question

If I suspected a student of plagiarism where would I go to see exactly what web sites were used.

I asked this student straight out whether this was her work or not and she said it was.

Answer 1

http://www.canexus.com/

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/users/angie/plagiarism/plaglinks.htm

http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/moss.html

http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/


good luck!

Answer 2

The current industry leader is turnitin.com The site scours not only the internet but includes many databases and books that might not be readily available on the internet.

I used to use this program frequently when I was teaching at a school in Northern CA. The price is costly, but it WILL list which sites the person took the text from (if plagiarism is found)

Answer 3

Before the child is accused of plagiarism, perhaps you should quiz him or her about what he or she recalls on the subject, and what was learned from it. Have the child write a short 100 word essay on the subject or something.

In this day and age, I think it's just as important that a child learns to be resourceful, as it is to have some areas of knowledge permanently embedded in their heads. We had to learn to be resourceful when we were in school, but we only had books.

I think I can recall that I might have copied something from a book to turn in as homework when I was a kid. But just in having to write it down in manuscript, it left an impression in my head. If the teacher asked, "What does that mean to you?" as they so often did, I could give them an answer. So, do the same thing. If the child can't give you his own personal views on the subject, he may be guilty of plagiarism.

Kids today have computers to use as resources to do their homework. We only had books. Just that makes me feel really old, like traveling in a covered wagon before cars were invented.

See if the kid actually learned anything.

I would tend to think that many households have Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia on their computers. If you were to want to find the source of someones plagiarism, I would start there.

Answer 4

As has been told you, there are software programs that can be quite powerful in delineating passages in an essay that have been plagiarized, or cut-and-pasted, from the net. At any rate, all you need to do is go onto most any search, such as yahoo, and input the suspect passage(s) verbatim.

Answer 5

I'm not sure that there's a website, I know the department I'm in at my college has a software program and I believe you scan the paper and it picks up things that are possibly plagiarized. Maybe contact a local college to see where they received it or if you can use it. Maybe you can get your school to purchase one.

Answer 6

The best approach is to know your students. If you know their style, their abilities, their limits, it's pretty easy to recognize work that is not original.

I thought the idea of asking her to re-write it was a good one. See whether she can start over from scratch and write a comparable essay on the same topic, at the same level of sophistication.

Answer 7

i have tried many a papers for Plagiarism test over many websites... they hardly give you the genuine results...
for a genuine result... you will have to pay for softwares and databases.. the software/application will match your reports with the specified databases...

thats how you would be able to get a genuine results...

Answer 8

if one were to plagerize a paper ,one would definately would choose a search engine. if one had the time and money ,one
would,easily buy an essay in the selected sites provided by the search engine.by doing this one could type"buy essay paper".how ever" if one didn't have the time,one would definatly type"download essay paper for free"