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Friday, April 30, 2004
A plague of plagiarists in a cut-and-paste world - RUSSELL SMITH, Globe and Mail
Plagiarism is in the news: Journalists at august journals are coming out as fakes in droves. There is a plague of discovery going on that rivals the outing of priests as pedophiles or Toronto cops as crooks. Suddenly everyone's looking at everyone funny. Who is to know what great reporter is for real, after all the evidence of widespread make-believe?Simultaneously, a controversy is incubating in universities, as students are beginning to protest, for various reasons, the imposition of having to submit their essays to Internet-based copy-catching software. The most popular of these programs is Turnitin.com, created by a group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, which reads through an essay to look for phrases that it finds repeated elsewhere on the Web; many professors won't even mark an essay until it has been vetted by Turnitin.
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