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RESULTS 
Classes one and two were informed at the beginning of their assignment that they would be submitting their 
research papers to an anti-plagiarism program. Class three was informed only after their first 3 assignments that 
their last two assignments would be submitted to an anti-plagiarism program. As is apparent in Table 1, the students 
who were told repeatedly and consistently that an anti-plagiarism would be used, had a remarkably low incidence of 
plagiarism.
Table 1 
Results Of Student Plagiarism With Consistent Message
 
Students 
No knowledge 
of Turnitin.com 
Knowledge of 
Turnitin.com 
Class one (n = 77) 
n/a 
3.5% 
Class two(n = 74) 
n/a 
3.9% 
As noted in Table 2, the first column represents the averages of the first three papers when the students did 
not know that their work was being sent in to Turnitin.com. The second column represents the average of two 
papers when they did know that their work was going to be submitted to Turnitin.com. While there was a drop in 
plagiarism, the decline was not dramatic.