"Finding Applicants Who Plagiarize "

CountingDown
Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:38:42 +0000

S2 wrote a number of blog posts that wended their way into one of his major essays for college apps. I suggested to him at one point that he take them down to preserve them from being filched by others.

Neither of my kids have discussed their essays online in a way that someone could pilfer material from them – they turned out to feel pretty protective about those essays. They were intensely personal and reflected a lot of work.

S2’s MS and HS used turnitin and he was able to run drafts through it before turning in a paper. It caught terms-of-art a LOT.