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Accidental Plagiarists
There is little doubt that a large part of plagiarism incidents are intentional attempts to cheat, perhaps an equal proportion of incidents stems from students that are uninformed or unaware of proper citation and plagiarism. According to an article in THE Journal, this idea is supported by many educators as well as new research concluding that increasing knowledge on plagiarism and citation is a more effective approach than punitive approaches.
Heather Scott, a Turnitin power user and English teacher at Air Academy High School in Colorado, first turned to Turnitin to help identify potential plagiarism. She quickly found the key to reducing plagiarism in her classes was in providing feedback to the students. With GradeMark®, Scott is able to show students what they did wrong, how to correct it, why it is important, and reinforce it in future assignments. She has even found tremendous value and results from having students review other student papers with PeerMark. Read the entire article, “The Accidental Plagiarists” in THE Journal.
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/1105/journal_201101/index.php?startid=39#/55/OnePage
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Improving OriginalityCheck Navigation
We’ll be making some improvements to how you navigate through sources within the OriginalityCheck™ sidebar. It’s part of our effort to improve Turnitin and achieve a more intuitive relationship between the three main ways users can view sources within the sidebar: Match Overview; Match Breakdown; and All Sources. You’ll notice this improvement later in January.
In this two-minute video, we’ll show you how to move from the Match Overview and drill down to view all of the additional sources that also match the same section of text. Watch this two-minute video on our Turnitin Product Updates blog.
http://community.turnitin.com/members/blog_view.asp?id=638717&post=116551
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IN THE NEWS
ABC Nightline: The College Cheating Culture
Nightline does a follow-up story on the popular “The Shadow Scholar” article, conducting an engaging interview with the custom essay writer …
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/college-cheating-culture-12389056
Grammar Girl on Plagiarism
Popular podcaster and blogger, Grammar Girl, presents “What is Plagiarism.” She succinctly and gracefully defines plagiarism and goes through examples …
http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/what-is-plagiarism.aspx
Maclean’s: What Punishment for Plagiarism?
An English professor discusses the current state of penalties for plagiarism in universities and suggests his fair and reasonable approach to penalizing …
http://oncampus.macleans.ca/education/2010/12/13/what-punishment-for-plagiarism/
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