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Computer program helps colleges fight plagiarism

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    Technology prevents application scammers

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They've just taken a parent -- off.

Straight out of a sample SA and colleges across the country and it sort of piece the whole thing together you can cheat but you can't hide they believe that by doing that.

We can't detect plagiarism.

But schools -- thanks to a computer program many employee called turn it in.

It's Kansas students work then cross matches it with the Internet.

Looking for the telltale signs of a copy and paste job and we go to those documents and -- and -- and -- -- props being copied off of a web page.

They're pretty sure we know what happened.

And it's not just written assignments and thesis papers.

UCLA's Anderson school of business uses the software to weed out candidates -- plagiarized their application essays is black is a piece that they wrote themselves every other piece is color coded.

And on the right hand side is the source eternity and developers say it's a way to make sure students are qualified to enter a school.

And are properly rewarded for the work they do.

When you go to doctor's office and look at their degree on the wall or you think about the engineers who -- who -- building.

A new building here or.

Bridge you wanna make sure that they are in those degrees in that they didn't cut corners to get them.

In the end of school must always double check what the computer fines there are critics however that say this violates students' rights.

Because -- work is there own intellectual property and therefore should not be scanned into a database.

In Los Angeles Casey Stegall Fox News.

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