Roz Howard wrote:
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> Hello
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> A quick straw poll, do any of your institutions use Turnitin?
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> and if you do, do you have a threshold percentage set for the
> originality report which triggers a plagiarism investigation?
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> I would be grateful of any feedback and process you put in place to
> support the threshold?
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> Thank you for your time
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> Regards
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> Roz”
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Many of us do use turnitin, but I hope that none use a "threshold". The
most painful thing to learn about turnitin is that the percentage scores
have little to do with plagiarism without considering many other factors
(number of sources, common phrases, length of report,subject area,...).
The person managing the essay will have to look down the submission
list, and decide what needs to be investigated by looking at the
reports! From essay to essay, you can probably decide on a lower
boundary where the originality reports don't require (detailed) scrutiny.
Niels
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