How do school catch plagiarizers?

Question

plagiarism is a big thing in school now because of the internet and I hear some highschools have it. I'm in highschool and I want to know how does this process work? Do they just type in the sentence in a program and it searches for possible website matchs or something or is this just a bull?

Answer 1

There are all sorts of websites (turnitin.com, for one) that help schools catch plagiarizers. Not to mention...teachers are, by nature, people who have read a ton of stuff and usually remember most of it.

And, by the way, teachers don't have to "punch the whole thing" into a search engine. Teachers can simply scan a paper and then submit it to turnitin.com.

Answer 2

Plagiarizers

Answer 3

Plagiarism has always been a big thing, it's just likely that it's easier to get caught now with the fingertip access to information via the internet. In general I think it's not technology that catches the plagiarist so much as it is the foolish assumption that people aren't well-read. When I was a teenager I remember reading all sorts of things from "Heavy Metal" magazine to acknowledgements on album covers only to have conversations years later with like-minded people about those very things. This led me to realize that anything I've read there's likely someone else who has read it too. Arrogantly assuming this is not the case....this is how people get caught. Maybe there's a sophistocated program out there somewhere that can scan the sum total of human literature to find exact phrases and the authors of same, but it's just as likely that someone somewhere read it and recognized it. People are remarkable computers in their own right. Never underestimate that fact.

Answer 4

That and some teachers spend hours cataloging work from the internet onto their computer. The school does little thing to catch plagarism but really teachers indivisually type in sentences and search papers. There is no specific program or process to catch plagarism. But watch out.

Alway do your own damn work.

Answer 5

There is a machine and it goes to all the websites on the inernet
And it will tell teachers in %s how much it was plagiarize

Answer 6

I know there's a website teachers will ask students to post their work on, and it scans lines from other works (both professional and student works) and that's how they do it (at least at my school) I don't really know the specifics, but kids have gotten caught, so it's not bull

Answer 7

Schools have a programe called processFIND and they type Paragraphs, sentances and even clauses into thhe program and then it comes up with any matches on the web. they then decide if the contnt is plagerisied or not.


they are going to crack down on X-Y12 doing their HSC fo plagerism


Hope i can be of help

Answer 8

Yes there are many websites for teachers that can scan papers students have written and check them against a google search

Answer 9

it's bull. If it really doesn't sound like something you wrote, they will check your sources, but other than that, I doubt a teacher would take the time to punch your entire essay into some kind of search engine.

Answer 10

there's a number of ways

1. internet (typing in sentences)
2. multiple papers with the same or similar text
3. teachers knowledge of certain books
4. word of mouth (you'd be shocked how much stuff teachers find out from overhearing students)