phrase of, say, six words or more will probably yield results.
http://campus.huntington.edu/plagiarism/
http://pages.citebite.com/p1q2w6tiiev
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1223 (a grim example)
Not, I realize, an automated system. Philosophically, I do wonder what it
feels like to be a student whose paper goes through TurnItIn or a similar
service. Exactly what message are we sending about writing and learning --
and our own assumptions about our students' relationship to it?
-- S
Seth Battis / http://battis.net / seth@battis.net / @battis / (323) 638-7384
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Wilson, Gayle <WILSONG@aa.edu> wrote:
> While having access to plagiarism checking systems is nice, I'd like to
> toss to the group that perhaps some easy tweaks to our educational process
> may also be even better.
> (1) Require drafts of the final paper,
> (2) Use drafts and smaller written assignments that will comprise the bulk
> of the major paper,
> (3) Tweak the original paper topic to move from "scoop and smush" (Jamie
> McKenzie "Beyond Cut-and-Paste" http://www.fno.org/sept08/cut.html)
> to students gathering & analyzing information, then writing a paper that
> displays original, multidimensional thinking.
>
> Yes, this takes more time to craft the assignment/overarching
> theme/question, but the result is more aligned to what I hope is a more
> interesting, relevant, and thought-provoking paper being created by
> students.
>
> Gayle
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Gayle Wilson
> Albuquerque Academy
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: A forum for independent school educators [mailto:
> ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Catherine Wyman
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:29 PM
> To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
> Subject: Re: Turnitin alternatives
>
> Thanks, Chris, but we are using Blackbaud - FAweb and NetClassroom
> along with Online Campus Community.
>
> Does anyone know of any alternatives for those products? Or a
> stand-alone plagiarism service?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Catherine
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Bigenho, Chris <bigenhoc@greenhill.org>
> wrote:
> > If you use Blackboard, you have SafeAssign available which works like
> TurnItIn.
> >
> > Chris Bigenho
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> > To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
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> >
> > please keep this open....we use turnitin right now and will most likely
> have to find another alternative....thanks.
> >
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