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Jul 16, 2015 · Plagiarism detection software from vendors such as Turnitin is often criticized for labeling clumsy student writing as plagiarism. Now a set of new tests suggests the software lets too many ...
Turnitin is horrible and really only works to catch those who completely copy and paste their work. Chances are your TA is an overworked grad student who didn't fully look at your lab report. Email a copy of the exact file you uploaded to turnitin to both your TA and your professor and explain the situation fully.
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Tim Amidon writes in “(dis)Owning Tech: Ensuring Value and Agency at the Moment of Interface”, Educational technologies, as interfaces, offer students and educators opportunities to discover and enact agency through strategic rhetorical action. Yet, realizing this agency is complex work … [that] requires an increasingly sophisticated array of multi...
Some platforms are not agnostic. Not all tools can be hacked to good use. Critical Digital Pedagogy demands we approach our tools and technologies always with one eyebrow raised. Some tools have good intentions squandered at the level of interface. Some tools have no good intentions at all. And when tools like these are adopted across an institutio...
How does a student push back against the flood of a tool like Turnitin, especially when that tool has been adopted across an institution? Resistance has to be on multiple fronts, offering individual students ways to respond when they are asked to compromise their intellectual property, while also addressing the systemic issues that leads to the ins...
May 24, 2021 · Furthermore, many students take issue with the fact that Turnitin effectively takes students’ papers and profits off of them. When you submit a paper to the site, it’s added to their database where future papers are then compared to for plagiarism. This database is a paid product, and it utilizes our papers, which means that it is profiting ...
Jul 13, 2015 · By Carl Straumsheim. iStock. Plagiarism detection software from vendors such as Turnitin is often criticized for labeling clumsy student writing as plagiarism. Now a set of new tests suggests the software lets too many students get away with it. The data come from Susan E. Schorn, a writing coordinator at the University of Texas at Austin.
Pros and cons of Turnitin. Concerns about a toxic culture of student-instructor mistrust inform one view of Turnitin, a platform that Brabazon (205, p. 14) ominously calls “the panopticon of plagiarism.”. This is a skeptical perspective about Turnitin, its limitations and its effect on student-instructor relationships (Bruton and Childers ...
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Aug 25, 2014 · Here's how it works: A student submits a paper through Turnitin's website. The company's algorithms then compare strings of text against its massive database. And, as Harrick said, it doesn't just ...
