Amanda Molnar EDUC 260.02

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Doc Cop is a free anti-plagiarism tool that was created by Mark McCrohon in 2006. This tool allows teachers to check their student’s work for plagiarism and even their own work for accidental plagiarism. This technology is a fast and effective way to check papers for plagiarism.

Doc Cop allows not only teachers, but anyone with a valid e-mail address to use their system to check for plagiarism. This tool can be used several different ways.  A Doc check is one type of check in which checks individual documents up to five at a time, with a 250,000 word maximum each one against the other. Another type of check is a Corpus check which looks at an unlimited number of documents with up to 12,oo0 words each against one another. The last type of check is a Web check, it looks at strings of text up to 550 words against results found on the web.

All of the methods of checking plagiarism on Doc Cop are valuable to teachers or any other type of professionals. This free and efficient way of detecting plagiarism is an efficient way of checking papers and a necessary tool in today’s world.