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The Plagiarism Problem: Instructors offer advice to avoid pitfalls

By Christopher Gibbs | August 29, 2011

  Kerith Woodyard, assistant professor of rhetoric and public communication, finds perfectly-written paragraphs in papers otherwise riddled with errors. Woodyard looks at papers uploaded to Blackboard where, depending on the class, all submissions are...