Plagiarism and Admissions Essays - The Brown Daily Herald

College Essays
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<p>Many college applicants may soon find their admissions essays electronically screened for plagiarism. The company behind Turnitin.com, the popular website used for years to screen academic writing for plagiarism, has developed a new service for college admissions essays.</p>

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<p>Well re-hashing “Why do you want to come to our school” essays seems to have come to an end…</p>

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<p>If they have the ability to screen for plagiarism based on previous admissions essays, that only increases the value of sites that offer college essay examples like essayexchange.org. Learn what works and if you copy, you’ll get caught.</p>