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Old 10-15-2007, 08:53 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by underGRADFlame View Post
Poor kids now it so easy to get caught. I was the first kid in my town to get internet and i ended up teaching a lot of teachers how to use it back in the early-mid 90's. It was so easy to plagiarize then, because no one knew where to grab the material from. Although I don't think I ever used a complete paper I definitely cheated in HS by use other internet papers as a base for my stuff.
The flip side of that is that it creates a lot of work for teachers. There's a service called turnitin.com that I've used in the past--I'm not too sure of its actual efficacy, but it seems to work ok as a deterrent. I just don't have the time (or the inclination) to be googling every paper.
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