Anxiety and the Archive: Understanding Plagiarism Detection Services as Digital Archives

Computers and Composition

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 65-77

  Purdy, James P ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Composition pedagogy; Digital archives; Online spaces; Plagiarism; Plagiarism detection services; Textual storage and circulation; Turnitin

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349096355     PISSN: 87554615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compcom.2008.09.002     Document Type: Article

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