DURHAM, N.H. (AP) – Starting this fall, University of New Hampshire students who take information from the Internet and present it as their own work may be caught by plagiarism-detection software.

UNH will start testing two different brands of plagiarism-sniffing software programs against papers submitted by students enrolled in a required English class.

Faculty members have said they suspect plagiarism in students’ work, but they’re not able to find evidence that it’s taken place.

The students will upload papers into digital drop-boxes, sending them to a central database where the cyber-comparisons will happen. Databases of other students’ work, library databases and other resources will be bundled into both program.

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Information from: Portsmouth Herald, http://www.seacoastonline.com

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