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12-03-2007, 02:07 AM
For Suzan Bonnington, senior project coordinator at Lodi High School, finding plagiarism students is as easy as clicking a few buttons. For years, local teachers and professors relied solely on their memories and suspicions when searching for signs of plagiarism among students' papers. A phrase a bit too sophisticated for their student's ability here, a familiar sentence from a text there, but only with some real legwork could teachers prove their hunches. All of that is changing as teachers like Bonnington use a blend of enforcement and education to prevent and detect plagiarism.
Many universities and high schools, including all high schools within Lodi Unified, are subscribing to a Web site called TurnItIn.com (http://turnitin.com/) to quickly catch plagiarists. But more than that, many local colleges, such as San Joaquin Delta College and University of the Pacific, are educating students on what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoid it.
TurnItIn.com (http://turnitin.com/) will compare a student's paper against 12 billion Web pages, 40 million student papers and 10,000 newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals to check for proper citation and originality, according to TurnItIn.com (http://turnitin.com/)'s Web site. Schools and districts can subscribe to the Web site's services for a fee that is based on the number of campuses subscribing to the service and the number of students at those campuses. After scanning its sources, the Web site then tells teachers what percent of their students' papers came from other sources.
Many universities and high schools, including all high schools within Lodi Unified, are subscribing to a Web site called TurnItIn.com (http://turnitin.com/) to quickly catch plagiarists. But more than that, many local colleges, such as San Joaquin Delta College and University of the Pacific, are educating students on what constitutes plagiarism and how to avoid it.
TurnItIn.com (http://turnitin.com/) will compare a student's paper against 12 billion Web pages, 40 million student papers and 10,000 newspapers, magazines and scholarly journals to check for proper citation and originality, according to TurnItIn.com (http://turnitin.com/)'s Web site. Schools and districts can subscribe to the Web site's services for a fee that is based on the number of campuses subscribing to the service and the number of students at those campuses. After scanning its sources, the Web site then tells teachers what percent of their students' papers came from other sources.