[EAS]Plagiarism Web Tools

[pjk]

Subject:   Plagiarism Web Tools

(from CIT INFOBITS -- February 2001)
 http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/infobits.html

WEB TOOLS FOR DETECTING STUDENT PLAGIARISM

The article "Borrowing, Cheating, Plagiarism, Theft" (by Graeme
Daniel, WEB TOOLS NEWSLETTER, February 27, 2001) provides a survey
of current Web tools for detecting student plagiarism. Included are
links to several articles on plagiarism and how to structure
assessment procedures to minimize it. The article is available
online at
http://webtools.cityu.edu.hk/news/newslett/plagiarismrevisited.htm

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teacher Kevin Cox. Each free issue pursues a particular topic
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The Graeme Daniel article provides a very useful perspective, but
does not appear to mention <http://www.findsame.com/> which was the
first anti-plagiarism Web tool I was aware of.

  --PJK