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Don't sites like these cost lots of money? If so, where does the funding come from?  Does your district pay for it? 

I usually just use Google or some other search engine to see if a line or lines in my students' papers is lifted from some previously published work.  By the time I get to research papers, I know their writing style and the words they are most likely to use, and 90% of the time, I find my gut instinct is correct.

Our district paid for our subscription. 

i agree that most of the time I think a paper or a section has been copied it probably has, and yes, it can be found on Google in most cases.  However, this site is an incredible time saver.  Instead of weeding through search engines to see if I can find anything that matches, all the work is taken care of.

We had Turnitin for a semester then got bogged down in a discussion of the morality of using the site (if you can believe it). Our administration, ever careful of avoiding bad press and/ or lawsuits, and perpetually cash strapped, took the discussion as a justification for turfing it before we even got accustomed to using it.

I find google marginally effective--it works with the students who aren't bright enough to cheat effectively, but I know there are still many others who slip through because they are better at cheating. Sure, I caught the football player who wrote about something being "truncated", not because he used that word, but because he also plagiarized the entire essay word for word, but I know I've missed some that I sensed were cheating but couldn't prove. One of my colleagues posts all of the study help sites he can find--his premise is that if he offers them, his students couldn't possibly think they could get away with cheating from any of those sites. But again, I'm not sure that's foolproof either.

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I've used turnitin.com for nearly 3 years now.  Our college English dept. purchased it.  I personally like it very much, although we're now beginning to use a free program provided through Blackboard that works just as well, in my opinion.  I've had very little negativity towards turnitin.com and would recommend it to others.

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