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FEATURED ARTICLES

7 Tips to Encourage Original Work

How can you design assignments that are plagiarism-proof? Here are 7 tips on developing strategies to encourage original student work:

1. Develop an awareness of student study practices
2. Discuss essay banks and custom essay writing services with students
3. Engender a deep understanding of plagiarism
4. Encourage an individualized approach to learning
5. Make innovative use of technology
6. Assess real life situations
7. Use detection tools to encourage learning

For detailed information, see the online guide:
http://www.plagiarismadvice.org/documents/briefingpaper/

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Call for Proposals on Plagiarism

Looking to participate and contribute to the academic community?

PlagiarismAdvice.org is seeking contributors to enhance content on its website as a resource for the academic community. Submit your brief proposal by the end of April. Suggested topics include:

– Approaches to engaging students in discussions on plagiarism and academic integrity.
– Addressing plagiarism in non-text based disciplines.
– Addressing academic plagiarism at all levels, including research.
– Innovative means of assessment.
– Formative approaches to using Turnitin.
– Using GradeMark in assessment for learning.
– Addressing plagiarism in Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, blogs, and other social networking media.
– Assessing the effectiveness of approaches to academic integrity.

Submit your proposal:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?formkey=dDlIS1ZsZW0yWGUzX2IxWk1sRjV6TGc6MA

PlagiarismAdvice.org is an academic advisory site that provides community-led guidance and best practices in addressing the issue of academic plagiarism and is operated by iParadigms Europe, Ltd.

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IN THE NEWS

BBC News: The Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V Boom
Coverage of recent high profile plagiarism scandals involving a German minister’s resignation and Gaddafi’s son’s use of a ghost writer.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12613617

NY Times: A Folly That Can Cost a Reputation – or Not
A look at how cultural differences vary in the way people perceive and respond to plagiarism in academia, politics, business, and media.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/education/07iht-educLede.html

WSJ: Students Struggle for Words
While M.B.A. students’ quantitative skills are prized by employers, their writing and presentation skills have been a perennial complaint.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703409904576174651780110970.html

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UPCOMING EVENTS

User Events

Maximizing Turnitin with GradeMark and PeerMark
29 June 2011
Imperial College
London, UK
http://gmsouth.eventbrite.com/

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Webinars

Turnitin Academy Live
Developing 21st Century Skills with Turnitin
17 March 2011
http://community.turnitin.com/events/event_details.asp?id=145399

PlagiarismAdvice
Live webinar series focused on plagiarism and academic integrity.

Identifying and Tackling Plagiarism
23 March 2011
https://nlearning.webex.com/nlearning/j.php?ED=169664532&RG=1&UID=1208509907&RT=MTgjMjE%3D

Designing Plagiarism Out of Coursework
30 March 201
https://nlearning.webex.com/nlearning/j.php?ED=169678382&RG=1&UID=1208557302&RT=MTgjMjE%3D

Best Practice for Dealing with Academic Misconduct
6 April 2011
https://nlearning.webex.com/nlearning/j.php?ED=169678927&RG=1&UID=1208558997&RT=MTgjMjE%3D

Institutional Policies and Procedures
13 April 2011
https://nlearning.webex.com/nlearning/j.php?ED=169679417&RG=1&UID=1208560857&RT=MTgjMjE%3D

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Conferences

AoC Annual Conference
31 March 2011
London, UK
https://www.aoccreateevents.co.uk/aoc/frontend/reg/thome.csp?pageID=128574&eventID=371&eventID=371

ASKe Plagiarism Event
9 June 2011
Oxford, UK
http://www.brookes.ac.uk/aske/events/index.html

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Napier University (Edinburgh) created some sample originality reports for making the “interpreting your originality report” video (link below), which is a resource to help improve student referencing skills. The video focuses on matching text where referencing could be improved, and matching text where referencing is appropriate.

“Interpreting your TurnitinUK originality report” video:

http://www2.napier.ac.uk/ed/plagiarism/turnitin/turnitin.html

The video is in five parts; 1) uploading documents to Turnitin, 2) understanding sources of matched text, 3) identifying your referencing mistakes, 4) reducing your percentage match, and 5) matches to student papers (collusion).

FEATURED ARTICLES

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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UPCOMING EVENTS

Conferences

FETC 2011
31 Jan – 3 Feb 2011
Orlando, Florida, US
http://fetc.org/Events/2011-Conference/Home.aspx

TCEA 2011
7 – 11 Feb 2011
Austin, Texas, US
http://www.tcea2011.org/

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Webinars

Turnitin Academy Live
http://community.turnitin.com/?page=academy

PlagiarismAdvice
http://community.turnitin.com/events/event_list.asp?show=&group=&start=1%2F19%2F2011&end=&view=&cid=3453

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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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The UK Turnitin Team has made available various training materials to help instructors use Turnitin more effectively. The materials will help you to integrate Turnitin into your curriculum to check for potential plagiarism, conduct peer reviews, and evaluate written work.

Follow this link for written chapters and videos on getting started with Turnitin.

Here are the details for the lunch time course Plagiarism: WebLearn and Turnitin during Hilary Term 2011. Course details are available on the courses database and bookings open 30 days in advance: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/.

Plagiarism: WebLearn and Turnitin

Wednesday 2 Feb 12:20-13:30 (week 3)

This article is from the October 2010 Turnitin Newsletter.

This is from the TurnItIn Sept 2010 newsletter and refers to the submit.ac.uk service.

Turnitin now has a new interface and a number of new features. For many it has been a welcome change, and for others there may be a learning curve. For people who are not quite ready to make the switch, it is easy to go back to the older, more familiar versions of the Originality Report and GradeMark. At this point, over 80% of users are using the NEW version of the Turnitin2 Originality Report and GradeMark tools.

Here’s an overview of the changes:

Document Viewer Frame

The Turnitin tools are available in a unified view allowing you to see a paper in its original format PLUS multiple sources of feedback all at once. You can view the Originality Report matches and GradeMark comments in superimposed layers on an image of a paper in its original format; PeerMark feedback will be accessible from this unified view soon. Now, an instructor can see the highlighted matches from an Originality Report while simultaneously grading the paper with GradeMark.

Navigation

Tabs for user information, help, and feedback now appear along the top right section of your screen. Access to your libraries, calendars and discussion boards is provided by the tabs in the upper left of your screen along the top of the main activity area.

Assignment Inbox

Changes to the assignment inbox include:

1. The GradeMark apple icon has been replaced by a “comment bubble” icon and a grade icon.
2. The “submit” button has been relocated below the assignment title.
3. Assignment settings are now easily accessible through a link labeled “assignment settings.”
4. Arrows for navigating between pages of the inbox appear at the top and bottom of the inbox.
5. Actions like “Delete”, “Move to…” and “Download” only appear if one or more papers are selected with the check boxes.

Libraries

The QuickMark Manager and Rubric Library for GradeMark are now available from the “Libraries” tab in the instructor’s view of the class. Now, instructors can create sets of commonly used marks and rubrics before the first paper is submitted to an assignment.

Getting to know Turnitin2

1. Comprehensive web page about Turnitin 2 http://submit.ac.uk/static_jisc/ac_uk_what_is_new.html
2. 4-minute Walk-through Video http://turnitin.com/static/support_video_gallery_walkthrough.html
3. Live Walk-through Schedule (pdf) http://submit.ac.uk/resources/documentation/turnitin/training/Turnitin_Daily_Training.pdf
4. Quickstart Guides http://submit.ac.uk/static_jisc/ac_uk_training.html
5. Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about Turnitin2 (pdf) http://submit.ac.uk/resources/documentation/turnitin/sales/Turnitin2_FAQ_UK.pdf

NEW PRODUCT FEATURES AND ENHANCEMENTS
We are constantly working to improve our services in ways that make a real difference in the daily lives of our students, instructors and administrators. As part of that effort, we created a new Product Updates blog to keep you informed of the improvements. As we release improvements to our products, we’ll post them at http://community.turnitin.com/productupdates.

December’s product update release includes:

• Download and print
• Import and export of QuickMark sets and rubrics
• Text comments directly on the paper

In early January, we will be making improvements to the sidebar navigation within OriginalityCheck. You can learn more about these feature enhancements at the Turnitin Product Updates Blog:
http://community.turnitin.com/members/blog_view.asp?id=638717
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USER EVENT – UK
3 Feb 2011,  Birmingham, UK
Want to learn more about best practices with Turnitin? Do you have ideas to share with fellow administrators and instructors on how to use Turnitin to improve student performance? Please join us at our Turnitin User Event.
More Info / Register: http://community.turnitin.com/events/event_details.asp?id=134225
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UPCOMING WEBINARS
PlagiarismAdvice is hosting a series of webinars on Wednesdays from 19 January through 23 February. Each session is led by academic advisors and Turnitin powerusers. Register at:
http://community.turnitin.com/events/event_list.asp?show=&group=&start=1%2F19%2F2011&end=&view=&cid=3453
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IN THE NEWS
The Chronicle of Higher Ed: The Shadow Scholar A fascinating and chilling look at the world of writers for hire.
http://chronicle.com/article/The-Shadow-Scholar/125329/

Bedford Bits: An Easy-as-Apple-Pie Plagiarism Lesson An easy and relevant lesson plan around plagiarism.
http://blogs.bedfordstmartins.com/bits/plagiarism/an-easy-as-apple-pie-plagiarism-lesson/

Supporting Academic Integrity
A guidance report on managing issues of student plagiarism, collusion and data fabrication.
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/York/documents/ourwork/academicintegrity/SupportingAcademicIntegrity.pdf
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SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE
All Turnitin services and related websites may be unavailable for use during scheduled maintenance times. Times for these scheduled maintenance windows are the first and third Saturdays of each month, 3 PM to 7 PM GMT.
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SEASON’S GREETINGS
As another year comes to a close, all of us at iParadigms join in saying thank you, and wishing you a happy holiday and a prosperous new year.
 The iParadigms Team

Student Access to Originality Reports

Martin King of Royal Holloway University of London conducted an investigation into the use of Turnitin in Higher Education institutions in the UK related to student access to Turnitin. The survey indicated:

1. Nearly 60% of respondents have a Turnitin usage policy either at the institution, faculty, departmental, or program level.
2. 60% of respondents that have a Turnitin usage policy allow students to view their Originality Reports.
3. 54% of respondents that did not have a Turnitin usage policy allow students to view their Originality Reports.
4. 42% of respondents give students access to their originality reports for all of their assignments.

Turnitin (@turnitin) learned about this study by following Martin King (@elswedgio) and RHUL Elearning Team (@elearning_rhul) on Twitter.

Read more about this study at the Royal Holloway University of London – Learning Technology Blog: http://rhul-lt.blogspot.com/2010/11/turnitin-suvey-into-student-access-to.html

In The News

NYT Upfront: ‘Generation Plagiarism’?

“Copying and pasting from the Web is just like copying from a book. But too many students either don’t know that it’s cheating—or don’t care,” according to Trip Gabriel’s article, “‘Generation Plagiarism’?” in the New York Times UPFRONT – The Newsmagazine for Teens. He also recounts three anecdotes of students that use someone else’s words without attribution.

The article also references Sarah Wilensky, a senior at Indiana University who wrote a paper headlined, “Generation Plagiarism,” in which she says that relaxing plagiarism standards “does not foster creativity, it fosters laziness.”

1. http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/upfront/features/index.asp?article=f102510_plagiarism

CNET: Tools for Rooting out Web Plagiarism, Copyright Violations

Dennis O’Reilly explains in his article that certain “misguided souls” continuing to think that all online material is in the public domain. A very common misconception we hear from students.

“According to a study released last January by the National Bureau of Economic Research, fear of detection may not be the best approach to preventing plagiarism among students. The results of the study indicate that educating students about the importance of academic integrity and what constitutes plagiarism is the most effective deterrent.”

1. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13880_3-20021945-68.html

The Chronicle of Higher Ed: Settlement Reached in Essay-Mill Lawsuit

“The operator of an essay-mill company has agreed to shut down all of his Web sites and to stay out of the term-paper business, according to the terms of a settlement agreement reached last month in a federal class-action lawsuit.”

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/settlement-reached-in-essay-mill-lawsuit

Upcoming Webinars and Training

PlagiarismAdvice.org Webinar Series

1. Best practise for dealing with academic misconduct 24 November @ 3 PM GMT
2. Institutional policies and procedures 1 December @ 3 PM GMT

Register here: http://spreadsheets.google.com/embeddedform?formkey=dGRqZDFHX2pzU1paRXdxNnRLU1pCY2c6MQ

Turnitin Academy Webinar: Best Practices for Teaching with Turnitin 1 December 2010 @ 9 PM GMT

Let’s discuss success strategies for using Turnitin on your campus or in your classroom.  We’ll share how schools have decreased instances of unoriginal content by nearly half. Register here: http://turnitinacademy5b.eventbrite.com/

Turnitin User Event – UK, 3 February 2011, Aston University, Birmingham, UK

This user event will bring together users of all experience levels and provide them with an opportunity to learn, connect, and share with each other. Click here to register and view the agenda:

http://turnitinusereventaston.eventbrite.com/

Scheduled Maintenance

All Turnitin services and related websites may be unavailable for use during scheduled maintenance times. Times for these scheduled maintenance windows are the first and third Saturdays of each month, 3 PM to 7 PM GMT.

The University of Kent has published useful guidelines for academic staff on the use of Turnitin. Visit http://www.kent.ac.uk/uelt/ai/staff/Turnitinguidelines.html, to find information on the following:

• Deterring plagiarism
• Case studies
• Using Turnitin
• Useful references
• Questions and answers