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EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND MOBILE LEARNING
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for
Educators
Easily Find out if your students papers contain
plagiarized Text using these free tools
Kharbach Mohamed
4/9/2012
You can use these tools to deter students from cheating on
assignments, which raises the quality of work for your course.
Instructors can see at a glance assignments that are original and
ones that contain content copied from the Internet
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Introduction
Technology has always had a close relationship with education. If you try
to investigate further into this relationship you would be philosophically enthused.
How come technology which is a mere product of a higher mature education can in
the same time be the prime engine in the advancement of education itself ?
Humanity's technological progress has impacted and ,in several cases, transformed the
way people are educated. Starting with the simple abacus that once made learning
easier a millennia ago to the highly sophisticated word processing tools and cloud
based mobile apps, education has witnessed a tremendous change both in the ways
this education is attained and also delivered.
While the information technology, internet and other developments have positively
reshaped the way education
is built and delivered, there
emerged
some devastating side
effects alongside these
developments. Plagiarism is
one negative
example among many of
what the impact of this
digital boom on education
has brought about.
We are living in a world that is digitally focused. Internet has made it pretty much
easy for everyone to have a free unlimited access to all kinds of information. One
single click in a search engine such as Google would suffice to get answers to your
bewildering math equations. Yes Our students have grown up in a 'free culture ' era
where the idea that everything online should be free is taken for granted. They can
download music, videos, movies, documents, researches anything they can put their
hands on without even thinking twice about copy rights and intellectual property
infringements.
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As educators and teachers, we should do all our best to change and redress the
situation. Our students are developing bad habits using technology when they can do
way better if this same technology is used properly.
Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
What is plagiarism ?
According to the Meriam-Webster online dictionary. to plagiarise means :
to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
to use (another's production) without crediting the source
to commit literary theft
to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.
In General Plagiarism is adopting someone else's ideas and presenting them as your
own in whatever form it entails.
Forms of Plagiarims
According to Plagiarims.org all the following are considered plagiarism :
1. Turning in someone else' work as your own
2. Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
3. Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
4. Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
5. Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving
credit
6. Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of
your world, whether you give credit or not
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Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Types of plagiarim
If you think that plagiarism is just copying and borrowing someone else' original ideas
then you are still missing out on many more. There are more ambiguous forms of
plagiarism that we as educators need to recognize in order to prevent it in the future.
Plagiarism.org has categorised the types of plagiarism under two labels one is Sources
Not Cited and the other is Sources Cited ( But still plagiarised )
I- Sources Not Cited
. 1- "The Ghost Writer"
The writer turns in another's work, word-for-word, as his or her own..
2- "The Photocopy"
The writer copies significant portions of text straight from a single source, without
alteration..
3- "The Potluck Paper"
The writer tries to disguise plagiarism by copying from several different sources,
tweaking the sentences to make them fit together while retaining most of the original
phrasing.
. 4- "The Poor Disguise"
Although the writer has retained the essential content of the source, he or she has
altered the paper's appearance slightly by changing key words and phrases..
5- "The Labor of Laziness"
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The writer takes the time to paraphrase most of the paper from other sources and
make it all fit together, instead of spending the same effort on original work.
6- "The Self-Stealer"
Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
The writer "borrows" generously from his or her previous work, violating policies
concerning the expectation of originality adopted by most academic institutions.
II - Sources Cited ( But still plagiarised )
1. "The Forgotten Footnote"
The writer mentions an author's name for a source, but neglects to include specific
information on the location of the material referenced. This often masks other forms
of plagiarism by obscuring source locations.
2. "The Misinformer"
The writer provides inaccurate information regarding the sources, making it
impossible to find them.
3. "The Too-Perfect Paraphrase"
The writer properly cites a source, but neglects to put in quotation marks text that has
been copied word-for-word, or close to it. Although attributing the basic ideas to the
source, the writer is falsely claiming original presentation and interpretation of the
information.
4. "The Resourceful Citer"
The writer properly cites all sources, paraphrasing and using quotations appropriately.
The catch? The paper contains almost no original work! It is sometimes difficult to
spot this form of plagiarism because it looks like any other well-researched document.
5. "The Perfect Crime"
Well, we all know it doesn't exist. In this case, the writer properly quotes and cites
sources in some places, but goes on to paraphrase other arguments from those sources
without citation. This way, the writer tries to pass off the paraphrased material as his
or her own analysis of the cited material.
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Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Educational Tips on Plagiarism prevention
Here is a great article written by Plagiarism.org( http://www.plagiarism.org ) providing
some detailed tips on how teachers and educators can teach their students the proper
ways of avoiding plagiarism. The article is REALLY great and I do RECOMMEND
it.
Citing resources in the correctly is a skill students need to learn in order not to fall
into plagiarism , here are a set of free tools to help your students correctly cite their
resources. Check out this article :
(http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2012/04/6-free-tools-to-easily-cite-resources.html )
Here are some of the best web tools to help you check for plagiarism in your students
work.
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Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Plagiarism Detection (http://plagiarismdetection.org/ )
PlagiarismDetection.org offers an innovative, user-friendly
online tool that helps students and instructors with detection and
prevention of academic plagiarism. Our sophisticated, yet easy-
to-use detector conducts thorough and in-detail detection for
plagiarism of a submitted document within a few minutes only.
The plagiarism detection software is designed to leave no
chances for plagiarized works and runs against all the available
Internet resources, including websites, digital databases and
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online libraries (such as Questia, ProQuest, etc.). As a result, the
program underlines the plagiarized parts of the text and
indicates the original source the passage was initially taken from.
Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Finally, PlagiarismDetection.org generates a full report,
indicating the overall originality rating and the percentage of
plagiarized materials in the submitted text. Customer has an
opportunity to share plagiarism reports with other people by
simply giving them the link, generated by our program.
How it works?
login to your account
paste your document into our online form
wait several moments for the detector to produce the report
get a complete plagiarism detection report and analyze it
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Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Grammarly (http://www.grammarly.com/ )
This one here offers besides a grammar checker and spelling checker a
very good plagiarism checker. This plagiarism checker not only
identifies plagiarism, but also offers corrections for it. The plagiarism
check automatically generates references in three formats, quickly and
easily, making it a helpful tool for writers who work with or discuss
other works.
Additionally, Grammarly's plagiarism checker can be turned on and
off according to your writing needs. This feature can save time and
energy when your writing is personal, informal, or when proper
referencing is not critical.
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Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Dupli Checker (http://www.duplichecker.com/ )
This is another tool for detecting plagiarised work. This is how to use it
:
1. Type few phrases or add your article in the box given above for
checking on this free plagiarism tool.
2. After choosing quote or without quote and search engine, hit the
search button of this plagiairsm detection software.
3. New search page of this plagiarism detection software will show
result after breaking each sentence automatically against the
websites pages already indexed.
4. You can always press back button of this plagiarism checker to
search next article.
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Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Turnitin (http://turnitin.com )
Turnitin's Originality Check helps instructors check students' work
for improper citation or potential plagiarism by comparing it against
the world's most accurate text comparison database. It preserves the
original format of the paper allowing instructors to view the student's
original text, formatting, imagery and layout. It also shows how much
of the student's paper matches content from our databases so
instructors can quickly understand how much of the paper is
unoriginal.
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Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Article Checker (http://www.articlechecker.com/ )
As its name suggests, this tool here checks for plagiarised articles. It is
very simple to use and does not require any software download or
installation. It is all web based, just paste your text in the box provided
and hit compare.
Viper Scanmyessay (http://www.scanmyessay.com/ )
Viper is fast becoming the plagiarism checker of choice,.with over 10
billion resources scanned and an easy interface which highlights
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potential areas of plagiarism in your work. Best of all, it's free! Just keep
in mind that it requires a download.
Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Dustbull Plagiarism checker
(http://www.dustball.com/cs/plagiarism.checker/ )
This is very easy to use. It does not require any download or
installation. Just paste in the text in the box provided for you and there
you go.
Copyspace (http://www.copyscape.com )
Copyscape is dedicated to protecting your valuable content online. It
provides the world's most powerful and most popular online
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plagiarism detection solutions
Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Paper Rater (http://www.paperrater.com/ )
PaperRater.com is a free resource, developed and maintained by
linguistics professionals and graduate students. PaperRater.com is used
by schools and universities in over 46 countries to help students
improve their writing. It has a great tool to check for plagiarism.
The Free Online Plagiarims Checker
(http://searchenginereports.net/articlecheck.aspx )
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free article checker is a tool that checks the web for plagiarism of your
content. Paste your text in the text box, then press the button.
You can also adjust the sensitivity of the search by using the slider bar.
Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Anti Plagiarism (http://antiplagiarismc.sf.net/ )
Anti-Plagiarism - software designed to effectively detect and thereby
prevent plagiarism. It is a versatile tool to deal with World Wide Web
copy-pasting information from the assignment of authorship. The goal
of this program is to help reduce the impact of plagiarism on education
and educational institutions. At present, it distributes free software to
detect plagiarism. Checking documents in a format *.rtf, *.doc, *.docx,
*.pdf Check the source code C, C++, C#, Java, ...
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Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Anti-plagiarism service for Google
Docs (http://www.docsdetective.com/ )
This is called Docs Detective which is mainly a plagarism checker for
Google Docs.
Plagium http://www.plagium.com/ )
This is a free to use service that allows users to track their plagiarised
work and documents.
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Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Google Alerts
Google Alerts is a tool that alerts you to instances of a phrase being
used. It gathers a report and sends a daily email to tell you what it has
found, including the URLs. The service is great for checking online
‘buzz’ about a unique product or a person, but it can also be used to
detect plagiarism in your unique works.
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Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
Free Plagiarism Detection Tools for Educators
Here are some other free resources for teachers and students:
80 Educational Alternatives to YouTube
The Ultimate Guide to Google’s Search Features for Teachers and
Students
Free Kids-safe Websites: Learning Tools for Young Learners
The Comprehensive Guide To Google’s Free Tools for Educators
and Teachers.
A List of Free Educational Android and iOS Apps.
21 Educational Infographics
Free URL Shortner Tools
Free Math Resources: Lesson Plans, Activities and Games.
16 Free Typing Resources.
Free Apps for Students with Visual and Hearing Impairment.
A List of Free Graphic Organizers for Teachers and Students.
Free Online Safety Tools for Teachers and Students
Find more of similar educational presentations at this page
For more reviews of educational web tools and technology tips on how
to learn and teach using technology I invite you to explore the free
resources included in:
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
www.educatorstechnology.com
Educational Mobile Technology
www.freemobiletech.com
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Thank you.
Free Plagiarim Detector Tools for Educators
