How do a professor or Instructor find out if you copied a person research paper?

I wanted to find out how do instructors find out if you copied someone research paper throught websites like Turnit.com or other similar websites. What if the other student went to another University or school will they still find out?

How do a professor or Instructor find out if you copied a person research paper?
Well, first of all, a good professor has a feel for the level of your writing and how you express yourself. If what you turn in varies from that, it will raise suspicion. IF the professor becomes suspicious, key phrases from the paper can be inserted into a search engine and the paper can frequently be found. (They ARE online, after all.) Best to do your OWN work.
Reply:Yes. Turnitin.com does not just look at what has been turned in previously at YOUR school.
Reply:turnitin.com matches your paper with papers turned in from all of its users along with websites.
Reply:Turnitin claims to check your paper against all this:


Over 12 Billion Web Pages • Crawled


Over 40 Million Student Papers•


Over 10,000 Major Newspapers, • Magazines %26amp; Scholarly Journals


Thousands Of Books Including • Literary Classics





I couldn't find it on their website, but they formerly said they used the ProQuest line of databases to match against newspapers, magazines, and journals.





It's really a powerful system. Even if your school doesn't use Turnitin, a teacher can do a free search by copying and pasting sentences from your paper into Google. That will catch plagiarizing from freely-available websites.





Bottom line: Just do the paper yourself. Pick a topic that's interesting to you. You'll learn a lot about research. Ask a librarian for help finding information for your paper. You might as well get some education, since you're going to school. ;-)