Resources for Detecting and Preventing Plagiarism

From the Free Technology for Teachers blog is this timely posting. Just in time for the new school year.

7 Resources for Detecting and Preventing Plagiarism

1. Google
2. Plagiarism Checker
3. Doc Cop
4. Purdue OWL website
5. Paper Rater
6. Plagiarism Checker.com
7. Plagiarism.org

And that’s before you get into TurnItIn.com style stuff which your institution may or may not subscribe to.

Put the fear of God into them!

I always think that one of the best ways to teach information ethics is to show how these easy tools work and then to tell students that there are better (secret and positively awesome) tools out there beyond these. But my mother always told me that se had eyes in the back of her head. I used to look for them when she was asleep . . .

Stephen