In the days when Google® was new I learned to use it for portions of student papers that looked fishy to me… sometimes whole papers turned out to be copies. Always told students if you footnote a source you’re doing research. If you don’t you’re plagiarizing.
Now they’ve developed tools that will scan the whole paper and show what is copied. At least one of the early programs was pretty useless. A student could submit it to the program to check for anything he / she had failed to attribute and fix the problem. But when I would later run the paper through the program it would say it was copied from a paper by a student at my college (yeah, the student who’d used it earlier to check the paper).
If paraphrasing a source or putting in your own words is just too difficult then add what you need as a quote and give credit to the source. Works every time. Or at least it did for me.
gammaguy 28 days ago
“Plagiarism”. Is that a belief in plagues?
LawrenceS 28 days ago
In the days when Google® was new I learned to use it for portions of student papers that looked fishy to me… sometimes whole papers turned out to be copies. Always told students if you footnote a source you’re doing research. If you don’t you’re plagiarizing.
Now they’ve developed tools that will scan the whole paper and show what is copied. At least one of the early programs was pretty useless. A student could submit it to the program to check for anything he / she had failed to attribute and fix the problem. But when I would later run the paper through the program it would say it was copied from a paper by a student at my college (yeah, the student who’d used it earlier to check the paper).
NRHAWK Premium Member 28 days ago
If paraphrasing a source or putting in your own words is just too difficult then add what you need as a quote and give credit to the source. Works every time. Or at least it did for me.
DaBump Premium Member 28 days ago
Nice irony. But it wouldn’t be plagiarism to use the same word.