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11-29-2007, 03:10 PM
According to UASD University law professor Dinorah Gomez, 99.1% of students commit plagiarism at least once each semester. This astounding figure is leading university professors to try and combat the new habit of "cut and paste" among college students. Hoy writes that many college professors are now forcing students to present their assignments and final projects in handwritten form in order to avoid the "copy and paste" scenario. They are also looking to correct the alarmingly high rate of spelling mistakes among university level students. Gomez, quoted in Hoy, says that she is continuously frustrated because students just copy material that they find online and don't even read what they have copied. Professor Samuel Moqueto de la Cruz said that the other problem is that students are also copying from each other, which is eliminated when students are forced handwrite assignments. The problem, however, is not just at the UASD; INTEC has had to tackle the same issues and the university was forced to use computer programs that scour the Internet to determine whether a work is plagiarized.
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