[LM_NET] GEN: advice on searching for plagiarism

[Elisabeth Macmillan <beth@SIMKIN.CA>]

GEN: advice on searching for plagiarism

I am sending a quick note to help people use the Internet more 
effectively when searching for plagiarism.

The first thing to know is that most search engines cannot handle more 
than 10 words at a time.  If small phrases, both with and without 
quotes, are not producing results, take the 10 most uncommon words and 
use them to search.  Do not use quotes. 

Finally, if your student speaks another language, you may wish to 
translate the quote into the other language and do another search.

Elisabeth Macmillan
Teacher-on-Call
North Vancouver, BC
beth@simkin.ca

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