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The cheap'n'cheerful way to do what Fay suggests would be to copy
sentences or phrases from the dossiers, and paste them into Google
(www.google.com) with quote marks (") around the whole phrase. This will
pull up other documents on the web which use the same sequence of words
(of course, some will be coincidence, but you'll soon be able to see if
the wider context matches too).
seb
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, F.Dowker wrote:
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> Dear Listmembers,
> There exist plagiarism detection programmes that universities
> and colleges use to detect copying from internet sources in student
> essays. My institution doesn't have one as far as I know but if anyone on
> the list has access to one, maybe it would be an idea quickly
> to run a few of the past Government ``dossiers'' through it. And to do it
> before they mysteriously get taken offline.
>
> best wishes,
> Fay
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