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From: Professional & Organization Development Network in Higher
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Posted by Francine S. Glazer www.kean.edu/~fglazer


Tara Gray writes:

>The most important tip for finding plagiarism is to check out the
search
>engine at www.google.com. IT IS SIMPLY AMAZING HOW FAST IT FINDS THE
>SUSPCIOUS PHRASE IN A PAPER ON THE WEB.

I have to second this! I tried a free trial subscription to one of the
on-line plagiarism-detection services, and in four of five papers that I
tried, google found at least two (and in one case, NINE!) web sites that
the
commercial service missed! (I contacted the commercial service about
this,
and they replied that they are updating their web crawler and should
have a
much more thorough/efficient one in place by mid-July... in the
meantime,
I'm using Google!)

Fran
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Francine S. Glazer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
&
Assistant Director,
Center for Professional Development

Kean University 908/527-2468
1000 Morris Avenue FAX: 908/659-1976
Union NJ 07083 fglazer@kean.edu
www.kean.edu/~fglazer**

Exactly how do you do this with Google? Do you paste an entire paper
into the search window??? Thanks.

Scott

>>> cxx@bellatlantic.net 06/02/02 04:22PM >>>
Tara Gray writes:

The most important tip for finding plagiarism is to check out the search
engine at www.google.com. IT IS SIMPLY AMAZING HOW FAST IT FINDS THE
SUSPCIOUS PHRASE IN A PAPER ON THE WEB.
<snip>

From: esteban.trevino@neoris.com [mailto:esteban.trevino@neoris.com]


If you find one phrase match then you can inspect the rest of the
paper...
Do use " ... " to enclose the phrase to narrow the search.

Cordially,

Esteban
esteban.trevino@neoris.com

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Exactly how do you do this with Google? Do you paste an entire paper
into the search window??? Thanks.

Scott
Cragin-S@mail.mssc.edu