Easy Plagiarism Checker - check it out!

This link takes you to a site that has been hacked?

Amazing!  i love it when I can catch the cheaters so they don't get the "once over" on me!

This is a great link, thanks!  As we continue to move forward in education, I think we will face new problems.

FYI:

You don't need to use this tool, all you need to do is cut and paste into Google directly and any 'phrase matches' will pop up.  then it is up to you if it is word for word, or not.

I agree A2K. KISS

JLK

The google-paste method is really useful, and simple, I agree.  I recently had to mark a paper handed in by a seventh-grader which was a bio of his favorite band.  It seemed much better written than I had expected from him.  But I didn't confront him with my suspicions--and I am so glad I didn't!  I just randomly selected phrases and sections of his paper, google-searched for a match, and. . .  while there were many sites that contained the same words, in different orders, the was no exact match.  I was able to congratulate him on his work, without the taint of my suspicion hanging over him. 
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Another tool for checking plagiarism is here http://www.plagium.com/, although I personally prefer the tool Kristine introduced. Maybe because I am just used to it.

If your district has the dollars, a great plagiarism detector is TurnItIn, which compares student work not only to web sites, but also to subscription database content and all other work previously submitted to TurnItIn. At our school, we use it as a coaching tool rather than as a "gotcha"-style punishment. At the point when students have prepared their first drafts, they upload the paper to TurnItIn and view their originality reports. If they find that they have insufficiently paraphrased, incorrectly quoted, or duplicated content, they have an opportunity to revise their work and we have an opportunity to provide additional instruction and coaching.

This is a Fantastic tool for teachers. It is so easy these days for students to copy and paste information from the internet and use it as their own work. With the average number of students a middle or high school teacher has, it's impossible for any one teacher to verify if plagarism has been performed by all her students. I would recommend this to any teacher.

This is great! That's right. Google really is a good way to check for plagiarism too, so this new tool is going to be interesting.

Thanks! 

This is a wonderful tool but how does it work?  I checked some of my own writing which is posted on our school website, and it came up as clean. 

This really cool, I didn't know that I could do this in google. I will check if this would work in other languges too. Thanks

Oh my kids are gonna be maaaad at you!  Thanks so much for the heads up.

I just wanted to throw in my two cents, here.... rearranging or substituting a few works here and there would still be considered plagiarism by higher ed, from what I've read. If the basic idea is part of someone else's work, then it needs to be cited, unless it is common knowledge.

One of my favorite resources on this topic is The OWL at Purdue: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/589/01/  

We began using Turnitin at my school last year, and we've already seen students writing better and being more conscious of how they use other people's information.  I'm planning to do even more with it in the coming year.  It isn't free, but if you can come up with the funding, it's SO worth it.