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The Sources in Student Writing – Higher Education

This paper is an update to a report published in November 2011, entitled “Plagiarism and the Web: A Comparison of Web Sources for Higher and Secondary Education Students.”1 Papers submitted to the Turnitin originality checking and online grading service are compared against 30 billion current and archived web pages, 120 million textbook and academic journals and 275 million student papers. For the purposes of this study, only matched content between student papers and Turnitin’s archive of the Web were considered.

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The Sources in Student Writing – Higher Education