There are many ways to check a paper for plagiarism. Most schools now utilize online programs such as www.turnitin.com to verify the originality of turned in work. Plagiarism is a highly prioritized guidelines, especially in any research type capacity. Plagiarism is basicly the pasting and copying of someone else's ideas, concepts and/or phrases without proper citation. Due to the wealth of
. information at our fingertips on the internet, plagiarism became a huge problem during the mid to late 1990s.