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Plagiarism Detection Services

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Plagiarism Detection Services

 

One strategy faculty can use to deter plagiarism in a course is to use a plagiarism detection service to evaluate the originality of the writing.  Some of the most well-know services are Turnitin MyDropBox and EVE2, though many others exist.  Turnitin and MyDropBox require the instructor or student to upload papers into the service. A report is generated that identifies material that might be unoriginal with links to the possible original source.  EVE2 is software that an instructor installs; papers are reviewed for originality against web sources, potential unoriginal material is highlighted, and the URL for the source is recorded. 

 

The use of plagiarism detection services on high school and college campuses is provoking great debate.  On the one hand, many instructors applaud a tool that arms them with the ability to quickly and easily locate content that might not belong to the writer, complete with links to the possible original source.  On the other hand, students are questioning if being asked to submit a paper to a database being used to review college papers is a violation of copyright.  Instructors question whether such a tool is effective in combating plagiarism and wonder if policing authorships is the best way to teach responsible research and writing.

 

Below are brief overviews of these three services with links to articles discussing the debates on such services

 

NOTE:  Many faculty at GW are getting individual subscriptions to Turnitin and other such services for personal class use. The Office of Academic Affairs wants to support faculty in maintaining the highest level of academic integrity.  In addition to putting these web pages together, the Office of Academic Affairs will be offering faculty the opportunity to request access to Turnitin through a University subscription.  More information will be available soon.

 

 


Turnitin

http://www.turnitin.com

One services that has received the most attention--both good and bad--is Turnitin.com  Turnitin offers four products and services.  The most discussed and controversial is the Plagiarism Prevention tool where students submit papers to the Turnitin database and the paper receives an originality report rating the paper against web sites, commercial databases of journals and periodicals, and previously submitted student papers. Turnitin has three other lesser known services: peer review tool, tool for grading and marking papers online, and an online gradebook system.

 

The Turnitin.com site offers training material for faculty and students, including videos, comprehensive manuals, and short guides

 

 

 

MyDropBox

http://www.mydropbox.com

 

SafeAssignment by MyDropBox.com is a service that has students upload a paper and the program checks the paper’s originality against the database and online sources, producing a report that highlights content that is not original and links it directly to the identical online or database sources.  Like Turnitin, SafeAssignment is just one of a series of tools that MyDropBox offers.  They also have a tool that allows the instructor to mark and comment on papers online called Re:Mark and a tool that assists peer review and group writing projects called Peer Re:Mark.

 

 

 

EVE2

http://www.canexus.com/eve/index.shtml

EVE2 (Essay Verification Engine) is software that an instructor downloads and installs to check student papers for plagiarism.  The software compares the student paper against Internet sources and returns a report with links to web pages of possible original source material.  The software costs a one-time fee is $29.00.

 

 


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Links to Plagiarism Detection Services

 

A regularly updated profile of all the free and fee-based plagiarism detection services.  Each profile provides the URL, how the service works, the costs, and whether the service offers a free trial.

 

This is an e-instruction sheet on how to use Google.com to search for text copied directly from freely accessible content on the Internet.

 

 

Discussion of Merits and Drawbacks of Plagiarism Detection Services

 

 

 

This is an early piece written about plagiarism detection software when Turnitin was still housed and called Plagiarism.org.  Many of the complaints against the service and other such services such as EVE are still the same today.

 

 

Turnitin is a regular topic of discussion on this blog.  To see more entries, go to keyword listing of all discussions on Turnitin at http://kairosnews.org/taxonomy/term/337

 

 

Professional Originality Checking Tools

Academia is not the only one concerned about originality.  Publishers and corporations are equally concerned about the originality of their publications as well as protecting their intellectual property rights.  One professional tool is iThenticate made by iParadigms, the same company behind TurnItin.

 

Articles for Discussion about Plagiarism Detection Services

  • Paul Collins (Nov. 21, 2006). "Dead Plagiarists Society: Will Goggle Book Search Uncover Long-buried Literary Crimes?" Slate.com http://www.slate.com/id/2153313/
This article examines what happens when classics digitized through Google Books are run through a plagiarism deteection service.

 

 

Internet Paper Mills

Paper mills or essay banks enable students to access pre-written essays about many subjects.  A list of paper mills is available at http://www.coastal.edu/library/presentations/mills2.html 

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