Having dealt with plagiarism cases regularly and often, I'm very skeptical about "IntegriGuard." I think it's a scam. If you suspect plagiarism, here's one (very) easy way to track down the source on the Internet (if the paper seems to borrow ideas and phrasing wholesale). (I've already successfully tracked down two in two separate cases this week, and it took me about 5 minutes total.) If you go to Hotbot, http://www.hotbot.com (a search engine), you'll find a space for entering words to include in your search. Find 3 or 4 slightly unusual but identifying words in the paper, enter all of them in the search box, then run it. Hotbot indexes every word on a web page, so it will find the occurrence of that combination of words. In the two cases I've researched this week, the source paper came up as the first "hit." You might also read more about the issue of plagiarism by tracking some of the links at the following website; http://www.faculty.ehc.edu/users/fmitchel/intplag.htm Jeremy was rightly suspicious. Dave ****************************************************** David Blakesley Director of Writing Studies Associate Professor of English Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Visit the virtual Burkeian parlor, home of Burke-L, at http://www.siu.edu/departments/english/acadareas/rhetcomp/burke/index.html ***************************************************** ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama.