Beat the Cheats.
As students increasingly use technology to cheat on school papers, educators are struggling to find effective means of thwarting them. Turnitin.com, a program that searches papers and websites for matching content, is one of the most popular anti-cheating programs on U.S. campuses. However, Turnit...
| Published in: | American (19328117) Vol. 2; no. 6; pp. 102 - 107 |
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American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
November/December 2008
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