[etni] Schools use high-tech tools for plagiarism

Schools use high-tech tools for plagiarism
Sun and weekly Herald - September 19, 2006

The Internet has made it easy for students to access information about virtually any subject they study.

But with a few clicks of the mouse, it's also possible to find some papers on line, copy the section of interest, paste it into a term paper and pass it off as original work. It's easy and it's wrong. It's called plagiarism.

Now, however, there are some high-tech tools that make it just as easy for teachers to fight plagiarism and teach students what they should and should not do when researching and writing a paper.
TurnItIn.com is a tool that North Port High School has used for five years. It's also being used in Charlotte County schools on a regular basis.
"We don't use it to punish kids," said Donna Day, Instructional Technology facilitator at the school. "We use it as a training tool so they can learn what is and is not OK."

TurnItIn.com is an online program through which students can submit an electronic version of a term paper. The program uses a database of countless books, articles and other published sources, including papers previously submitted by other students from all over the world. In mere seconds, the software identifies sections of the paper that appear to have been copied from other sources.

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