Re: Plagiarism detection software

[SMNagel29]

In a message dated 12/18/2005 7:34:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That's a wonderful pair of exercises, Ken, and worthy, IMO, of wider dissemination.    That is the weakness of these services; that they cannot tap into pass-protected data bases, such as PsycArticles.  On the other hand, my understanding is that, for at least Turnitin, all of those student papers that you had submitted now become part of the services ever-expanding database.  Therefore, any student who submits material from those sources that had been earlier included in the student papers should now be flagged down.    Miguel   There certainly are limitations in the turnitin.com format (false negatives). It has been, nonetheless, a significant help in my ability to address the issue of academic integrity. I see it mostly as a teaching *aide* for undergraduates who have not had adequate training; for example, what constitutes paraphrasing. It does detect some incidents, and this is helpful when one is attempting to process 200 papers. I can't detect and process problems with such volume. So my limitations are reduced with this software support. It is true, Miguel, that turnitin.com accumulates all papers submitted by students for comparison. Text overlap is color-coded and easily related to its source. I found it easy to quickly separate obvious false positives from possible hits. These days I'll take any help I can get.  =)     ***************************************************** Sandra M. Nagel, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Psychology Saginaw Valley State University 166 Brown Hall 7400 Bay Road University Center, MI 48710 http://www.svsu.edu/~smnagel/research/ Office: (989) 964-4635 Fax: (989) 790-7656 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************************************** --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]