How to Check a Term Paper for Plagiarism
Detecting plagiarism is very important to teachers, editors and writers. Plagiarism is the act of using someone else's ideas and writings without properly citing it. This can be identified especially easily if the writing is directly paraphrased or reproduced verbatim. Attempting to pass off someone else's ideas as your own constitutes a legal as well as an ethical issue. Many schools will suspend or expel students for plagiarism, and if you are a writer, you can face serious consequences. Luckily, there are several ways to protect yourself from being accused of plagiarism and ways to catch students and writers in the act.
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Check your paper thoroughly if you are writing. There are several resources to self-check your work for plagiarism, as well as many sites that compare texts against other written documents from a database of papers. This will help protect yourself against any accidental plagiarism that you may have committed.
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If you are reviewing someone else's work and have reviewed them before, compare the term paper to one previously written by that person. Compare the writing style and vocabulary range to the previous papers. If the writer has never written in the tone or voice being used for the term paper, chances are it is plagiarism.
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Follow your instincts. If you feel like the words you are reading are not the typical style or tone that the writer uses, search for that text on a search engine such as Google. You can plug in a suspicious sentence or sentences and you may return a search result that confirms your suspicions of plagiarism.
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Everything's been written already. Chances are good something was plagiarized at one point in human history.
