Northwestern’s trial subscription to an Internet-based plagiarism detector allows professors to check the originality of students’ papers turned in during Fall Quarter. “The thing that has made ...

As technology makes it easier for students to cheat on exams or plagiarize papers, there has been no shortage of technology meant to deter and catch students who use cell phones, iPods and Google for ...

SafeAssignment and Turnitin compile a database of student research papers, internet news articles, and academic journals. Instructors enter new student papers and compare the work against the programs ...

SafeAssignment, the program aimed at helping students learn to properly cite information in papers, is still being tested, and minor kinks are still being worked out. There have been a few small ...