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TurnItIn.com Hosts New Site for Admissions Essay

June 26th, 2010 4 comments

TurnItIn.com begins Admissions Plagiarism Check

TurnItIn.com begins Admissions Plagiarism Check

TurnItIn.com has been huge in preventing plagiarism at colleges and universities across the country. With a database of millions of research papers and access to all internet based sources, their ability to find plagiarism is virtually flawless. In an effort to expand their services, TurnItIn.com has begun collecting admissions essays. This database will be for college admissions departments to submit a perspective student’s admissions essay and check it for plagiarism. However, there are a few problems with this type of service…

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Karen Sonnenberg

Writer, editor and term paper guru. Also a really wonderful person that is available at any time to assist with research paper questions. Connect with me on Google+

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Term Paper Mill in Legal Hot Water, Again

November 30th, 2009 No comments
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Term Paper Mills Crank Out Plagiarism

A 3 year legal battle is coming to a climax as the University of Wisconsin is getting their day in court with the term paper mill R2C2 Inc. R2C2 Inc. sells term papers on the internet without the consent of the author, which is blatant plagiarism. The law suite was filed in 2006 and is intended to put a halt to term paper mills on the internet. Term paper mills resell the same papers an infinite amount of times to students that either pay to join a service for access to a database of term papers or pay to download individual papers that are available from a database of 1000’s of pre-written term papers. Term paper mills meet the criteria for plagiarism at several levels, most notably, using an author’s works without their permission. The author’s of the term papers that are downloaded receive no credit or compensation for the term paper that is being sold, nor have they given permission for the term paper mill to sell their work. Read more…

Karen Sonnenberg

Writer, editor and term paper guru. Also a really wonderful person that is available at any time to assist with research paper questions. Connect with me on Google+

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TurnItIn.com Wins a Major Victory Against College Students

April 23rd, 2009 No comments

TurnItIn.com Wins Victory

TurnItIn.com is as common to college students blue books, pizza and cheap beer.  Write your term paper, submit it to TurnItIn.com and submit the paper and report to your professor. However, not all students want this process to be a part of the academic world. A group of high schools students have taken iParadigms, the owners of TurnItIn.com, to court for copyright infringement. The decision of the suite against TurnItIn.com was released this week, with the court voting that since no transformation of the work takes place, there is no violation of copyright.

This is an excellent victory for both students and colleges and universities. Services like TurnItIn.com assist in the fight against plagiarism and encouraging students to maintain academic integrity of their work. A recent study and subsequent authoring of a book about the study reveals that students care about plagiarism far more than colleges and university administrations give them credit for. Susan D. Blum reveals the results of a three year investigation into college culture and plagiarism in “My Word! Plagiarism and College Culture“. We will be reveiwing her book on this blog next week and I think most of you will be very surprised at what she finds. According to Blum’s findings, one can speculate that most students will applaud the court’s decision in favor of TurnItIn.com. If you have an opinion on the TurnItIn.com decision, we would love to hear it!

Karen Sonnenberg

Writer, editor and term paper guru. Also a really wonderful person that is available at any time to assist with research paper questions. Connect with me on Google+

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Term Papers for Sale!

October 29th, 2008 No comments
Term Papers for Sale

Term Papers for Sale

Term papers for sale! You see it all over the internet. Websites offering cheap term papers, college term papers, high school term papers and even graduate student term papers. No topic is too strange and nothing is too sacred for these term paper services to sell. And they sell them, the same papers, over and over and over. Originality is not the specialty of many internet term paper services. Read more…

Karen Sonnenberg

Writer, editor and term paper guru. Also a really wonderful person that is available at any time to assist with research paper questions. Connect with me on Google+

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