Hi everyone. I hope you had a nice and restful four day weekend. About three weeks ago, I had the opportunity to participate in the Learning Walks. It was a great experience seeing you all in action. At that time, students were getting ready for the On Demand Writing. Some of you have approached me for ideas when teaching about plagiarism and citation. I found the following resources that are completely free to help you catch plagiarsim. In my observations of students word processing at the library, most kids who plagiarize do it unintentionally because they don't know how to synthesize information. A few however, do it on purpose. Modern technology makes it all too easy to "copy and paste." Anyways, here are a few tools to help you.
1. Plagtracker: is web based so all you need to do is copy and paste text into Plagtracker and it will tell you which parts it finds online or thinks need revision due to plagiarism. The premium service lets you download pdf reports and even does grammar checks.
2. Duplichecker: is also a free tool that lets you or your student copy and paste parts of a paper (or upload a file) to their site and they will scan it for you against multiple web sources.
3. ScanMyEssay: is also free. It's not web based and requires a download but it is quickly becoming one of the most popular plagiarism checkers out there.
4. PaperRater: is also a free site maintained by lingustics professionals and graduate students. Its web based and it does grammar and spelling checks too.
5. DocsDetective: Do you use GoogleDocs with your students? Well, DocsDetective is a plagarism detection tool designed to work with Googledocs.
6. Plagium- is the last resource on this list and is also free. It lets you keep track of plagiarized works.
See you next Tuesday.
1. Plagtracker: is web based so all you need to do is copy and paste text into Plagtracker and it will tell you which parts it finds online or thinks need revision due to plagiarism. The premium service lets you download pdf reports and even does grammar checks.
2. Duplichecker: is also a free tool that lets you or your student copy and paste parts of a paper (or upload a file) to their site and they will scan it for you against multiple web sources.
3. ScanMyEssay: is also free. It's not web based and requires a download but it is quickly becoming one of the most popular plagiarism checkers out there.
4. PaperRater: is also a free site maintained by lingustics professionals and graduate students. Its web based and it does grammar and spelling checks too.
5. DocsDetective: Do you use GoogleDocs with your students? Well, DocsDetective is a plagarism detection tool designed to work with Googledocs.
6. Plagium- is the last resource on this list and is also free. It lets you keep track of plagiarized works.
See you next Tuesday.