As future teachers, we need to know how to prevent plagiarism in our classrooms. Plagiarism is when someone (a student) claims someone elses work as their own. There is a variety of ways that this can be prevented. When choosing a research topic, make the topic orginal so the students won't be able to find many essays online. Also, if you require them to write a rough draft or do their research in class you can monitor their computer/book copying and insure that their work is their own.
In my senior English class, my teacher used a website (www.turnitin.com) which scanned papers for plagiarism. We would submit our work online and the site would automatically look for phrases or even paragraphs that matched websites or other documents. This made it easy for the teacher to know who was plagiarizing and who was actually doing their own work. I know this strategy would work because a few of my classmates got caught plagiarizing on a summer assignment and it was detected by this website.
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