Technology's Role in Plagiarism And Trying to Prevent It

By Mark Brodie, Steve Goldstein
Published: Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 4:29pm
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Arizona State University has more than 21,000 so-called digital immersion students. Those are students who are fully online.

Bruce Matsunaga is director of digital technology for ASU’s English department. He spoke about plagiarism and how the department uses software to keep track of how students are using research material.

ASU students have started their final exams; their counterparts at the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University will start in the coming days. With finals often comes essays, and with essays, concerns about plagiarism. Teddi Fishman, director of the International Center for Academic Integrity at Clemson University, spoke about the issue

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