I would certainly like to see this go ahead. At the conference Mr Taylor made
much of the status of the papers as model answers: this would put some substance
to the claim. I would also love to see what happens to his site traffic once
users are made aware that the material will be picked up by Turnitin.
Nathan
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I vote for yes... can't see any reasons for not including this database
Tony Lowe
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From: Plagiarism on behalf of Gillian Rowell
Sent: Fri 06/10/2006 14:15
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Subject: Proposal to incorporate Acumen content in Turnitin database
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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