Important information on plagiarism:
Begin with the student's bibliography and search library full-text databases:
Turn It In ... detection software embedded into CANVAS, but the professor needs to turn it on.
EBSCOHost databases—e.g. Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete.)
Project Muse
Try searching a suspicious phrase in Google, Google Scholar, or Google Books.
Find the phrase on the page
If the phrase appears in your results, it may be highlighted and easily found. If it isn't, use the "find" function on the browser to go the exact point where the phrase appears.
Adapted from the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University
Google Books may have all or part of the book available.
Amazon.com may allow you to "search inside the book." Type your text string into the search box, using quotatons. If that exact phrase occurs in any of the Amazon's pages of searchable text, you will be able to view the page online.
Adapted from the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University
Articles for class discussion
Adapted from the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University