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To ensure that these standards remain rigorous, administrators at the school have contracted with a California company called Turnitin. (As in “Turn It In”. Get it?) The company specializes in assisting schools to detect plagiarism by maintaining a database of more than 22 million essays written by students in the US and abroad. Turnitin allows educators to scan electronic copies of their students work and compare the content with the essay database, along with numerous academic databases containing scholarly materials.
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The committee insists that they are not condoning plagiarism; instead, they argue that Turnitin violates their intellectual property and privacy.
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undermine students’ authority over the uses of their own writing.
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At a minimum, before prospective students are accepted at an institution that uses such services, they should be informed of submission requirements and the nature of the PDS’s use of their work.
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Turnitin compares student writing against a database of articles, previously submitted student writing, and web pages, it’s most easily used as a plagiarism detection service.
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And if pedagogical arguments don’t sway the university, the three professors pull out the L Word: Lawsuits.
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“There wasn’t a landmark thing that happened that we said we need to adopt this,” Carney said. “Plagiarism is a problem at every high school nationwide.” She also explained that students would be allowed to submit drafts of their work to Turnitin as a way of detecting their own citation mistakes; only the final copy of their work will be graded and scrutinized.
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17 Mar 07
Dennis OConnorDiscussion of key issues in the plagiarism / free speech / intellectual property issue
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