In the days when Google® was new I learned to use it for portions of student papers that looked fishy to me… sometimes whole papers turned out to be copies. Always told students if you footnote a source you’re doing research. If you don’t you’re plagiarizing.
Now they’ve developed tools that will scan the whole paper and show what is copied. At least one of the early programs was pretty useless. A student could submit it to the program to check for anything he / she had failed to attribute and fix the problem. But when I would later run the paper through the program it would say it was copied from a paper by a student at my college (yeah, the student who’d used it earlier to check the paper).
gammaguy about 1 hour ago
“Plagiarism”. Is that a belief in plagues?
LawrenceS about 1 hour ago
In the days when Google® was new I learned to use it for portions of student papers that looked fishy to me… sometimes whole papers turned out to be copies. Always told students if you footnote a source you’re doing research. If you don’t you’re plagiarizing.
Now they’ve developed tools that will scan the whole paper and show what is copied. At least one of the early programs was pretty useless. A student could submit it to the program to check for anything he / she had failed to attribute and fix the problem. But when I would later run the paper through the program it would say it was copied from a paper by a student at my college (yeah, the student who’d used it earlier to check the paper).