>
Dear Peter Taylor,

One suggestion:  why not tell all your users/customers that all scripts
have been submitted to Turnitin before being posted on the coursework info
site and if re-used, even in somewhat altered fashion, will appear as
copies.



Jude Carroll


Hi,
>
> I am the Operations Director of Acumen Professional Intelligence Ltd, who
> amongst other essay sites, owns www.Coursework.Info.
>
> We have recently come under new ownership and are now focusing heavily on
> improving our approach to Plagiarism avoidance. As part of this we want to
> work closely with the academic community to ensure that we best understand
> the issues of concern and how best to overcome them. I have been given
> responsibility for ethics and plagiarism avoidance.
>
> We have made initial contact with the Plagiarism Advisory Service and the
> QCA and are beginning to engage in some very useful dialogue which has
> already yielded some improvements to the approach we are taking and
> therefore lessening the likelihood of plagiarism occurring. As part of
> this
> work I will be a panel member at the upcoming International Plagiarism
> Conference 2006, alongside Prof. Don McCabe from the Centre for Academic
> Integrity in the US, Prof. Tom Angelo, from Victoria University of
> Wellington and Dr Ruth Barrett from the University of Hertfordshire (this
> panel session will take place on the afternoon of the second day, Tues
> 20th
> June - hopefully this will be a very informative session for all panel
> members and delegates alike - hope to see you there!).
>
> To help reduce plagiarism, we welcome your comments on our Plagiarism
> Policy
> and our guide on How to Avoid Plagiarism, which can be found at:
>
> http://www.coursework.info/cgi-bin/e/page.cgi?p=plagiarism
>
> and
>
> http://www.coursework.info/cgi-bin/e/page.cgi?p=avoid_plagiarism
>
> I would also be really interested to hear your thoughts on our site as a
> whole and how you feel we can make real steps forward in our goal of
> mitigating the threat of plagiarism from our site.
>
> I hope that we are all able to find a good spirit of co-operation which
> will
> help ensure that in the new digital world plagiarism is avoided as much as
> possible.
>
> I welcome your thoughts and comments.
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Peter Taylor
> Operations Director
> Acumen Professional Intelligence Ltd
>
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