I vote yes too. Do you really want a 'yes' from the entire list base?
Who is likely to oppose this?
regards,
Scott
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Durham University
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-----Original Message-----
From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Antony
Lowe [FLDU]
Sent: Friday October 2006 15:41
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Proposal to incorporate Acumen content in Turnitin database
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
To: [log in to unmask]
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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