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BBC NEWS March 2, 2011

**A German minister has resigned after copying huge chunks of his doctoral thesis, while the London School of Economics is probing whether Colonel Gaddafi's son lifted chunks and used a ghost writer for his own. So is plagiarism out of control?** It's been a bad week for honest educational endeavour. And who are the plagiarisers? Many are first year undergraduates who copy and paste simply because they have not been given appropriate instructions on how to write an essay, says Dr John Olsson, of the Forensic Linguistics Institute. "You're just out of school and suddenly you're being asked to write 3,000 words on a subject by Monday. It's a daunting task," he says. [|turnitin.com] This site can help. You can be in charge by checking your own papers. =WriteCheck for Students = ==If your instructor has requested you use Turnitin == If your instructor has asked you to turn your paper in through Turnitin, contact your instructor for your: > **AND** You need BOTH of these items to access Turnitin. Once you have this information, you should login to Turnitin using the login fields in the top right corner of the turnitin.com page.
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