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How to Check for Web Plagiarism

You might think of plagiarism as simply copying the work of someone else and using it in your own work. The term is slightly more complicated than that, however, because it actually involves two acts. According to plagiarism.org, an anti-plagiarism resource for educators and students, plagiarism "involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward." With the advent of the Internet, stealing the work of others has become easier to do. However, there are certain tools that educators can use to detect this novel type of plagiarism.

Instructions

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  Navigate to the websites of the sources that were cited by the student and check to see if she plagiarized any content from those websites. Be wary of any websites that are broken or that don't relate to the content the student produces; this could be a sign of web plagiarism.
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  Navigate to an online search engine and search for a few different phrases from a section of the work that you suspect is plagiarized. Search for those sections of a paper that don't use a style consistent with the rest of the paper or are too stylistically advanced for the student.
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  Use an online plagiarism checker such as plagiarismchecker.com, dustball.com or articlechecker.com. These websites allow you to search for duplicate content within an entire paper.

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