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I always tell my students on the first day of school, "If you can find it on the Internet, I can find it on the Internet." They, particularly those just entering high school, often find this to be an amazing concept and a strong deterrent against Internet plagiarism. If this doesn't work, though, I use a variety of techniques to detect and deal with this type of academic dishonesty. 1. Ask yourself, "Does this look like the student's normal writing? Does this seem to be grade level appropriate writing?" Honestly, these are how most teachers begin to catch plagiarism. They should be the beg...
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