I love plagiarism checkers! When my students come to me in middle school they have no idea that teachers can simply copy and paste their document to check it. So many of them are used to simply copy and pasting work from websites and turning it in as their own. This is a great tool to be able to not only keep the students on track but also help them really understand that their writing needs to be just that, their own. This is great to go over before they start a research project. Taking a paper that you say you have done that is made up of a bunch of plagiarized material and letting them check it and see what it comes up as would really be an eye opener for them and hopefully deter them from ever doing that on any of their own work since they see how easy it is to check. Having them check their own paper as they go through the writing process would be beneficial to them to see how they are doing will paraphrasing and putting things into their own words.
AuthorI am a computer teacher for middle school students in the Melvindale-Northern Allen Park School District. I have a beautiful 1 year old girl named Alexis and love being a mommy! We are expecting our second child (a boy) at the end of July! Archives
April 2015
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