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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Just a Reminder

UCLA is among the many universities that subscribe to Turnitin to detect plagiarism in student reports.  We noted some time back, however, that students have access to services - such as the one above - that help them to lower their plagiarism scores.  The one above purports to help students avoid "accidental plagiarism" (whatever that is) by telling them what their score on Turnitin would be.  They can then diddle with the text of the paper to lower the score.
One has a sense that plagiarizing a paper and then "fixing" it via such services would be more work than just doing the paper without plagiarizing.  In any event, keep in mind that Turnitin can ostensibly be thwarted.

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