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Using
Google.com to Detect Internet Plagiarism
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(http://www.google.com)
can be used as a plagiarism detection tool to track down Internet
plagiarism--copying from Web pages accessible to the public . Its
advanced search engine capabilities are conducive to locating key
phrases that may appear in students' papers. Perform an exact phrase
search on a phrase from a suspect part of the paper using the Advanced
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Step 1. On Google's main page, choose Advanced Search
Step 2. Select a distinctive phrase from a suspect paper and type
in the "with the exact phrase" search box and click on
"Google Search"
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Tracking Down Plagiarism from Library Full-text Article Databases
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InfoTrac
and EBSCOhost allow you to search for words or phrases within
the full-text of articles. You can track down plagiarized papers,
paragraphs and particular sentences. Search for a distinctive phrase
using the full-text search option.
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InfoTrac
Step 1. Select Keyword search or Relevance search
Step 2. Enter in the search box a distinctive phrase from a suspect
paper
Step 3. Select the radio button next to "in entire article
content" and click on "Search"
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EBSCOhost
Step 1. Select a distinctive phrase or sentence from a suspect
paper, and type it the search box
Step 2.Select "Also search within the full trext of the articles"
Step 3. Click on "Search"
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Please
contact the library if you have any questions.
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