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Actions Do Speak Louder than Words: Deterring Plagiarism with the Use of Plagiarism-Detection Software

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2002

Bear F. Braumoeller
Affiliation:
Assistant professor of government at Harvard University and an affiliate of both the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Davis Center for Russian Studies. Prior to July 2000, he was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois. His primary research interests include international security, political methodology, and the study of Russian foreign policy.
Brian J. Gaines
Affiliation:
Associate professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His teaching and research interests include electoral systems and voting behavior, political methodology, and the political histories of the Anglo-Atlantic democracies.

Extract

Introduction

In recent years, the availability of online source material and online papers has increased instructors' concerns regarding plagiarism in the classroom. Many instructors do not realize, however, that the digital revolution has also created a niche for fast and (at least somewhat) reliable plagiarism-detection software.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2001 by the American Political Science Association

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