The Quick Plagiary Detection Button: A Special Case
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The Quick Plagiary Detection Button graphic allows you to run a simple Google search for text strings that you believe are plagiarized.  If the student has copied something that is freely available on the internet, the chances are fairly good that T.A. Toolbar will find it.

To use the button, simply highlight the suspicious text like so:

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Now click the plagiary detection button and your browser will open up with a list of hits on the Google search engine that may be related to the suspicious text.

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As you can see from the image above, the student has copied a  Wikipedia article.  Google (very conveniently) puts search terms in bold face, so it will be easy to see when you've found what you're looking for.

In the meantime, T.A. Toolbar has supplied a hyperlink in the student's paper that points to this particular list of Google hits--in case there is any question about the plagiary later on down the line.  (And we can guess there probably won't be any....graphic)  The paper now looks like this (the underlined portion is a hyperlink):

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