anyone know any sites on the net that allow you to detect for plagiarism for free?
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if you type a line of the paper or whatever you are checking into google, it will come up with things it could have been copied from. All you have to do is type in one sentence and then press enter. a bunch of results will come up and you can check from there.
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I suggest you write the paper yourself. There is a website that most professors use called "turnitin.com" that scans the paper for plagersim.  Any paper bought or downloaded form the internet will show up on this site's scan. Plagerism is not only illegal but from what I have seen, it will get you kicked out of either that class or worse, get kicked out of college.
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Students plagiarize the same way anyone else does.  By copying some else's work and passing it off as their own!
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To plagiarize is to use and pass off (the ideas or writings of another) as one's own (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=plagiarize).\n\nIf you plagiarize for profit it is intellectual property theft (civil, not criminal).  If you plagiarize for school there is no legal repercussion, but you may get expelled depending on school policy.
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Copying information from websites is called plagiarism, and some schools have software which can tell if you have tried to pass someone else's work off as your own.
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“Plagiarism is using others’ ideas and words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information” (Writing Tutorial Services, 2000). Notice that it does not matter whether or not the failure to give credit is intentional. Any lack of credit, even accidental, is considered plagiarism.\n\nDefines plagiarism as:\n\n-not giving proper credit for ideas, words, or “specific substance of another’s work,” (P-5) \n\n-claiming authorship on a group project without actually doing the work, \n\n-claiming someone else’s artistic or scholarly work as your own. \n\nAny form of information requires acknowledgement. A common perception is that only the exact copying of words from a printed publication constitutes plagiarism. The requirement to acknowledge sources is much broader. In particular, it is important to understand that the source of  ideas — opinions, theories, facts, etc. — as well as words must be credited..\n\nSources of words and ideas come in many forms, all of which require proper attribution to avoid plagiarism. This web site focuses on plagiarism as it appears in student papers using written sources but the concepts can be applied to any type of source material. Information sources can include:\n\nspoken words such as conversations and interviews, \n\nwritten words including email and web pages as well as published and print materials, \n\nmultimedia such as movies, music and photographs, and \n\nany other way to express an idea including statistics, drawings, graphs, maps, etc\n\n\nExact Copy Plagiarism:\n\nThere are two types of exact copy plagiarism — whole source and partial copy.\n\nWhole source plagiarism is claiming an entire work as your own. The most common example is when a student puts his or her name on a paper written by another person. Whole source plagiarism also includes claiming to be the creator of such things as a work of art, an entire song, or a scientific theorem. Examples of plagiarizing an entire paper include turning in as your own work:\n\na friend’s paper \na purchased paper \na paper published in another source such as a journal or the Internet \nPartial copy plagiarism occurs when the exact words or content from a source are inserted as part of your paper without giving proper attribution. Examples include\n\ncutting and pasting from an electronic source \ncopying from a printed source \nrepeating a conversation, interview remarks, etc. verbatim \ninserting a photo, audio clip, or other multimedia element \n\n\nParaphrase:\n\nMany people believe that putting a piece of text or an idea into ‘their own words’ avoids the issue of plagiarism. There is a formal term for putting text or ideas into ‘your own words’ — it is called paraphrasing. The purpose of paraphrase is often to summarize or simplify the author’s ideas, making them easier to understand, more approachable. You might also use paraphrase to emphasize a particular idea or train of thought from the original author’s text. \n\nHowever, rewriting a piece of information in your own words, or paraphrasing, has two pitfalls. First, close paraphrase, where trivial changes are made such as substituting similar words or changing the sentence order, is essentially the same as copying the author’s words directly. This is not enough to count as an original expression of the idea and is still considered a form of exact copy plagiarism. Second, any type of paraphrase includes the original author’s ideas, which still must be acknowledged even if it has been substantially re-expressed.\n \n\nCommon Knowledge:\n\nNot all ideas require attribution, specifically, facts that are common knowledge. Common knowledge exists when a fact can be found in numerous places or is likely to be known by a lot of people. For example, you do not need to document the fact that Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States since this information is widely known. On the other hand, you must credit your source for f
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www.snopes.com has a lot
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These sites may help.  They seem to have some practice samples that are free.
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search the web and check them for authenticity, cross-referencing them with one another. there's a lot of misinformation going around as well.
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yes there is one! it's called free ed.net.
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A System for Detecting Software Plagiarism\n\n \n\nWhat is Moss?\nMoss (for a Measure Of Software Similarity) is an automatic system for determining the similarity of C, C++, Java, Pascal, Ada, ML, Lisp, or Scheme programs. To date, the main application of Moss has been in detecting plagiarism in programming classes. Since its development in 1994, Moss has been very effective in this role. The algorithm behind moss is a significant improvement over other cheating detection algorithms (at least, over those known to us). \n\n \n\nLanguages\nMoss can currently analyze code written in the following languages:\nC, C++, Java, C#, Python, Visual Basic, Javascript, FORTRAN, ML, Haskell, Lisp, Scheme, Pascal, Modula2, Ada, Perl, TCL, Matlab, VHDL, Verilog, Spice, MIPS assembly, a8086 assembly, a8086 assembly, MIPS assembly, HCL2. \n\nNews\n4/24/04 A serious bug was found and fixed in the network-based submission script a few weeks ago. No recent reports of problems with the network-based script have been reported.\n10/25/03 There are currently two versions of Moss available: the old email-based system and a new network-based system. The network-based moss does not use email for transporting submissions and replies, and instead a direct network connection is made to the server. This design is both more efficient and easier to install and use (especially on Windows systems).\n\nThe network-based system is still in beta. By default, when you register for moss you receive a submission script for the network-based Moss. If you have problems (and there are believed to be some bugs still in the new version) you can download the submission script for the email-based Moss and use that instead.\n\n\n\n \n\nAn Internet Service\nMoss is being provided as an Internet service. The service has been designed to be very easy to use--you supply a list of files to compare and Moss does the rest.\nYou can use Moss from either Unix or Windows systems. To use the Windows submission script you will need to replace the script you receive via email with the Windows version (see instructions for downloading scripts below). \n\nIn response to a query the Moss server produces HTML pages listing pairs of programs with similar code. Moss also highlights individual passages in programs that appear the same, making it easy to quickly compare the files. Finally, Moss can automatically eliminate matches to code that one expects to be shared (e.g., libraries or instructor-supplied code), thereby eliminating false positives that arise from legitimate sharing of code. \n\n\n \n\nRegistering for Moss\nMoss is being provided in the hope that it will benefit the educational community. Moss is fast, easy to use, and free. In the past, access has been restricted to instructors and staff of programming courses. This is no longer the case, and anyone may obtain a Moss account.\nHowever, Moss is strictly for non-commercial use. If you are interested in commercial uses of Moss, contact Similix Corporation. \n\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nDefinitions of moss on the Web:\n\ntiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants \nwordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn\n\nMosses are a type of simple or non-vascular plant. They can be distinguished from the apparently similar liverworts or Marchantiopsida (formerley the Hepaticae) by their multi-cellular rhizoids. Other differences are not universal for all mosses and all liverworts but the presence of clearly differentiated stem and leaves, the lack of deeply lobes or segmented leaves,and the absence of leaves arranged in three ranks all point to the plant being a moss. \nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moss\n\nThe mobile submarine simulator (MOSS) is a sonar decoy used by submarines of the United States Navy. It is a 21-inch torpedo, without an explosive warhead, butable to generate a strong sound signature recorded to be extremely similar to that of the launching submarine. \nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSS\n\nsmall, leafy plants that do not produce flowers or se
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You should try searchbug.com.
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I do not know of a website that does it for free unless you do it illegally. Here's one that the Private Investigastors use, but it costs money.\n\nSource(s):\n\nhttp://criminalbackgroundchecks.spaces.m...
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Hi Nick, some of these are free but I would air on the side of caution if I were you.\n\nFREE ESSAYS and LETTERS.\n\nfree online resource for students of literature.\n\nhttp://www.freeessays.cc/free-essays-listing.shtml\n\nhttp://www.mytermpapers.com/\n\nhttp://www.wowessays.com/\n\nhttp://www.123helpme.com/\n\nhttp://www.cyberessays.com/\n\nhttp://www.allfreeessays.com/\n\nhttp://www.bgfl.org/services/foi/templates.htm\n\nhttp://uk.geocities.com/essays4free2000/index.html\n\nhttp://www.megaessays.com/\n\nhttp://www.midlandit.co.uk/education/index.htm\n\nhttp://www.thepaperexperts.com/personale\n\nhttp://www.freeforessay.com/\n\nhttp://members.tripod.com/\n\nhttp://www.academicdb.com/\n\nhttp://www.4freeessays.com/\n\nhttp://mrbraiman.com\n\nhttp://uk.geocities.com/essays4free2000/index.html\n\nUSEFUL LINKS\n\nTechniques\n\nIntroduction, body, and conclusion.\n\nhttp://library.exeter.edu/dept/citations/mag1.html\n\nhttp://www.hehs.d211.org/academics/index.html\n\nhttp://uk.geocities.com/essays4free2000/\n\nhttp://www.academicdb.com/\n\nhttp://www.world-english.org/\n\nhttp://www.netessays.net\n\nhttp://www.exampleessays.com\n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com\n\nhttp://barronsbooknotes.com\n\nhttp://www.markthis.com/cliffnotes/cliff...\n\nhttp://www.getfreeessays.com\n\nhttp://www.allfreeessays.com/\n\nGood luck\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Write one. :)\n\nAre you looking for specific information, or just looking for one to plagiarize?
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The fastest way would be to plagiarize, not very honorable tho
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Google, or better, a library. But make sure it is a legit source and that you follow MLA guidelines in citing the source.