I think I am still within my 3 allotted emails for the day. yeah! Hope I don't
find anything else I want to say....
We also have turnitin. I am very disappointed as far as psychology goes
because
they do not subscribe to very many mainstream psych journals. I had students
this semester submit their papers via turnitin, not to 'catch' the cheaters,
but as a tutorial on plagiarism versus paraphrase. At the same time I
turned in
a dummy paper in which I blatantly plagiarized from 7 different papers I had
assigned for the students' assignment. Not a one was caught :( I used JEP,
Applied Cognitive Psych, Memory and Language, the APS journal, etc.
So, although turnitin works well, and I really wanted my students to see their
reports and use it as a teaching tool, rather than as a punishment tool--and I
believe that setting a tone of this is for teaching, not for punishing will
enhance MOST (not all!) students' honesty--the applications to psych may be
limited.
I am working on getting around this by submitting papers with full
references as
if my own term paper. Once it's in the pool it becomes part of the comparison
process. However, I'm not sure that is honest either :(
Annette
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Hello -
The following is not germane to the topic of appropriate penalty for
plagiarism at the graduate level (my vote on that is zero-tolerance),
but it might
be of interest to some of you. . .
Our campus purchased a license for Turnitin.com earlier this year. I have
just finished my second semester's use of this resource, and it has
efficiently
and easily altered how I address plagiarism with undergraduates. It is an
excellent tool for not only preventing and detecting this problem,
but also for
educating naive students. It is user friendly; students can easily obtain
their own reports of text overlap if you wish. My students know that
no overlap
in text (except for referencing material and *occasional* and necessary
quotations) is allowed in their final product. This requirement
leaves each one
of them with the task of creating her/his own product. The software
allows the
educator a great deal of flexibility in structuring his/her own assignments
and student requirements. I give it 5 stars out of 5 (and I have no
financial
interest in the venture, promise). =)
_http://www.turnitin.com/static/home.html_
(http://www.turnitin.com/static/home.html)
Sandra
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Saginaw Valley State University
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