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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,5071391%255E12333,00.html

Plagiarism at 8 per cent
Jim Buckell

MORE than 8 per cent of students have been found to pilfer large amounts of text from the web in what is believed to be the first comprehensive survey to detect the level of plagiarism in Australian universities. The survey, conducted on behalf of six Victorian universities by university-owned information resources group CAVAL Collaborative Solutions, examined 1751 essays chosen at random from 17 subjects in the first semester of this year. Using web-based detection software, it found 155, or 8.28 per cent, of the essays contained unattributed text copied from other sources that made up 25 per cent or more of the total word count. The report seems certain to lead to sweeping changes in student assessment as early as first semester next year....

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