[LM_NET] Plagiarism and Google

[Ann Robinson <arobinson@MOULTONBOROUGH.K12.NH.US>]

One of my Gr. 12 English teachers came to me this morning with a  
suspicious paper, and she wanted me to run it through out plagiarism  
detection service, MyDropBox. But we were unable to find an  
electronic version of his paper on our server, which means that the  
clever little bugger either did it at home or did it at school but  
didn't save it.

I remembered a LM Net posting from a while back about using Google  
for plagiarism detection, so I took the most unique (and suspect)  
sentence from the paper, put it in quotes and googled it. Within 2  
seconds I was looking at the obscure blog that he had cut and pasted  
from. Were it not for LM Net we would never have been able to prove  
this infraction of the rules. Thank you, LM Net!

Ann

Ann Robinson, Library Media Specialist
Moultonborough Academy
25 Blake Road, Moultonborough, NH 03254
arobinson@moultonborough.k12.nh.us



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