Oddbean new post about login | logout If you have other tips like this, please let me know! I'm going to write it up after I play with these a bit myself. 3/x
@bb052609 ligatures where they shouldn’t be are also a sign of copying and pasting
@bb052609 Otherwise inexplicable changes in the font, font size (like from 9 to 9.5), or line spacing.
@787c481a Adding them to my list!
@787c481a @bb052609 slight changes in font color as well (such as dark grey or navy). If you select a paragraph and one of the text options goes blank (font, color, background, size, even occasionally text style), it might be that something was copied/pasted -- it's indicative that some part of the text is different from the default text.
@74fb078d Good one.
@bb052609 1. Any font changes within the document, no matter how small. It means someone may have lifted part of the copy from another source online; and if you see that… 2. Paste the passage in question into Google or Wikipedia (or both). If it’s been appropriated, you’ll receive that info in the results … sometimes verbatim (plagiarizers never think they’ll be caught). #editing #writing #plagiarism
@7495b45a Interesting. You're the second person to tell me you'd search Wikipedia. Do you find that Google misses things that are in Wikipedia these days?