Administrators at Sydney University are worried that they may be facing an online-plagiarism epidemic. The university is looking into more than 300 cases of suspected cheating. Many of them were identified by Turnitin, a program that helps professors scan their students’ papers for evidence of plagiarism. Some 25 Australian institutions have purchased licenses to use the software.



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