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http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/db/articles.asp?ID=15993

Internet service helps teachers detect incidents of plagiarism
By Robert Salonga

Several UC campuses have embraced software developed at UC Berkeley that allows faculty to detect Internet plagiarism. The most widespread detection software available is TurnItIn.com, an Internet service that cross-references the paper in question with other Web sites and papers in its online database – which increases in size with each paper submitted. Whereas faculty members used to type a lengthy passage into a search engine to detect suspected cheating, the service can find a case of plagiarism based on a few words....

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