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on 05-Jul-01 09:53 PM
The Cat-and-Mouse Game of Plagiarism Detection
Colleges provide professors with new online tools to give them the upper hand
By JEFFREY R. YOUNG
As student cheating incidents continue to make headlines, many colleges are beginning to equip all
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of their professors with high-tech tools designed to detect plagiarism. Some professors say that checking papers for cheating may soon become a routine part of grading.
Plagiarism-detection software has been available for several years, but its use appears to be growing.
Georgetown University, Tulane University, the Rochester Institute of Technology, the University of California's campuses at Berkeley, Davis, Los Angeles, and San Diego, and the University of Southern California are among the institutions that recently forged agreements to give all of their professors access to a service called Turnitin.com, which can scan student papers to see if material has been copied from the Internet or from other papers in the service's database.
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