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...Harvard class that is piloting the anti-plagiarism service TurnItIn is Sociology 189, “Law and Social Movements,” according to Harvard’s director of instructional computing, Paul F. Bergen...
...TurnItIn is a software system that searches for similarities between work submitted to the service and text from an expansive database of billions of Web pages, academic journals, and previous submissions, according to the company’s Web site...
...words of other writers from the sophomore’s novel before it went to press, how can professors and teaching fellows at Harvard expect to police plagiarism in coursework?An Oakland, Calif.-based software company says it has a solution.The company’s anti-plagiarism system, TurnItIn, scans student papers for similarities with previous work.At universities that subscribe to TurnItIn, professors can submit student papers to the company’s website—and those papers remain in the TurnItIn database forever.TurnItIn then compares the submissions to all the other papers in its database. Within seconds...