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Keeping Current on Plagiarism, Cheating & Academic Integrity by Susan Herzog, Information Literacy Librarian, Eastern Connecticut State University

Program to nail copycats
11/1/2004

By Andre Gouws

"Stellenbosch - The days are numbered for students who copy each other's assignments. A computer studies student at the University of Stellenbosch has designed a plagiarism detection program. McElroy Hoffmann, 21, of Springbok in the Northern Cape, who is studying BEng(computer systems), wrote the program that checks assignments for similarities."