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Wednesday, September 25, 2002
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/4129493.htm Internet accelerates academic cheating Associated Press The explosion of online term paper sellers and legitimate research sources - separated by mere clicks of a computer mouse - has created new tricks to finding out whether students are cheating. Hamilton McNutt, a junior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, didn't even know he was cheating. While writing a term paper on the Argentine economy, he took a snippet from an online journal and paraphrased it. Instead, McNutt left the original wording of one sentence in his paper without citing it as being written by someone else. There was something about that single line in numerous pages of text that caught the professor's attention....
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