Plagiarism

• Jargon or advanced vocabulary that seems out of place
• Papers that appear to be of elementary school quality
• Anachronisms
• Strange layout or formats in the paper
• Web addresses printed at the top or bottom of the page
• Papers that are only on topic for the first and last paragraphs, with seemingly incongruous material in between
• Works Cited pages and Bibliographies with a mix of citation styles or sources all from a previous year

NOTE: Library staff are available to help with this process.

Free Resources:

• Type a suspect string of five or six words from the paper into Google or another search engine. Be sure to put quotation marks around the phrase so that the search engine will look for your exact string of words.
• Be familiar with paper mill websites.
• Be aware that Wikipedia and sites like it are among the most frequently plagiarized sources.