@dontmissthese wrote:You could have simply googled it.
OR . . . when you post the quote you could include a link for all to use rather than relying on members to find it for themselves. Not all those who visit here are as tech savvy as others and would struggle to find the origin of the quote.
Also, what part of your post intro are we supposed to use in a google search?
My initial overall comparison was flawed by being just that ...'overall'.
Current figures ( prior 7 days ) do shout 'no flights from India'.
Interestingly the USA figure is probably overstated inasmuch as Covid
gets more government money thrown at it than Flu.
"Hospital administrators might well . . . . .
Nothing there to direct me to “usatoday” or the headline for the article.
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I had already found the source and was asking more for the benefit of others than myself.
The method I used was a google ‘phrase’ search. I looked for a group of words that would not be likely to be repeated as a phrase on many sites. Put the phrase between quotation marks and google will search for web pages where the exact phrase is present . . . as shown in the screengrab below.
This is a method I used as a teacher when checking student work for plagiarism. I would simply look for two or more words that were in the student assessment task that would not be in a phrase on many sites. I once photocopied a student task and highlighted the parts I was able to find where word-for-word passages were copied. I used different coloured highlighters for each site I found and the task lit up like a Christmas tree. The student had included several sites in a bibliography, but none of the ones that he had copied from. When I handed the task back with a mark of zero he questioned me . . . so I pulled out the photocopied task and printed copies of the pages he stole from and he asked “how did you know to do that?”. Students thought teachers who didn’t grow up with the internet were not tech savvy.
The method I used was a google ‘phrase’ search. I looked for a group of words that would not be likely to be repeated as a phrase on many sites. Put the phrase between quotation marks and google will search for web pages where the exact phrase is present . . . as shown in the screengrab below.
This is a method I used as a teacher when checking student work for plagiarism. I would simply look for two or more words that were in the student assessment task that would not be in a phrase on many sites. I once photocopied a student task and highlighted the parts I was able to find where word-for-word passages were copied. I used different coloured highlighters for each site I found and the task lit up like a Christmas tree. The student had included several sites in a bibliography, but none of the ones that he had copied from. When I handed the task back with a mark of zero he questioned me . . . so I pulled out the photocopied task and printed copies of the pages he stole from and he asked “how did you know to do that?”. Students thought teachers who didn’t grow up with the internet were not tech savvy.
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however, ask me to download a song on iTunes and I am screwed!
