An empirical research study of the efficacy of two plagiarism-detection applications

Journal of Web Librarianship

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 169-181

  Hill, Jacob D ^a   Page, Elaine Fetyko ^a  

^a ELMHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic honesty; Blackboard; Cheating; Citation; Detection; Ethics; Instruction; Plagiarism; Prevention; SafeAssign; SafeAssignment; Training; Turnitin

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449623648     PISSN: 19322909     EISSN: 19322917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19322900903051011     Document Type: Article

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