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UC-San Diego uses Web to fight cheating
By Kirsten Hubbard, The Guardian (U. California-San Diego)

(U-WIRE) LA JOLLA, Calif. -- In an effort to eliminate cheating on class assignments, the University of California-San Diego has signed a two-year contract with IParadigms Inc., which runs an Internet-based service designed to stop plagiarism. Through this service, called turnitin.com, professors can submit student essays, research papers and recitations through a large-scale search engine. These papers are then compared with documents throughout the entire Internet, along with an extensive archive of previously submitted student papers....

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