The more on Turnitin the better, especially such sites. I agree with
Jill Pickard.
S
Suzanne Ryan
Teaching, Learning and Quality Coordinator
Newcastle Graduate School of Business
University of Newcastle
Callaghan NSW 2308
Australia
Phone +61 2 49 216015
Fax +61 2 49 217398
www.gsb.newcastle.edu.au
>>> Gillian Rowell <[log in to unmask]> 06/10/06 11:15 pm >>>
Posted on behalf of Will Murray, Director, Plagiarism Advisory Service.
Dear all,
At the plagiarism conference in June Peter Taylor of Acumen PI took
the
unexpected step of talking to our community about his coursework
library
site as part of the conference panel session.
For list members who were not at the conference, Acumen PI provide a
series
of websites offering access to a large number of model answers (essays)
to a
growing student user base.
Understandably this generated a great deal of interest!
During the panel session there was a suggestion from the floor that if
Peter's company were true to their belief that they were providing a
valuable model answer service they should allow Turnitin to search the
full
Acumen PI database.
Currently the Acumen PI essays are only accessible in password
protected
areas of the Acumen sites and are therefore hidden from Turnitin.
Inclusion
of the Acumen database would increase the number of essays searched by
Turnitin by 130,000 (plus daily additions).
Acumen PI indicated at the conference in June that they would be
willing to
provide their essays for inclusion in the Turnitin search database and
have
recently repeated this offer.
Do we as a community think it would be worthwhile or useful to place
the
Acumen content in the Turnitin database so that it can be searched
along
with all the other existing content?
We would welcome your views!
PAS Team
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