The Change Mariner: Internet Arms Race: Plagiarism

September 22, 2003

Internet Arms Race: Plagiarism

Texas A&M University is using a new tool and revamping an old tradition to give professors and students more weapons against cheating.
The new tool is a computer service capable of tracking plagiarized material. The revamped tradition will return the long-defunct honor court to campus.

Both are aimed at reducing what A&M officials describe as an ongoing problem with student cheating, made worse by the easy availability of academic material on the Web.

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Now, students and faculty at A&M can use the turnitin.com Web service to see if they're guilty of trying to download their workload. Turnitin.com uses a vast database and combs the Web for identical or similar phrases or groups of words.

Posted by Bob King at September 22, 2003 8:41 AM
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