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Webb, Eileen wrote: > Jon > > I would suggest that if you gave someone a quote and they rephrased that > quote so that a text-matching system such as Turnitin found no > similarity then that person would successfully have put it into their > own words. > > If this was one of my students I would probably be happy. if on reading > the new reworded text it was relevant made sense and answered the > question I would probably be happier still and consider they had learnt > something. However, if they then told me they had used Turnitin > repeatedly until the colour went away, I would suggest to them that > there was a much more efficient way of doing it. Eileen, I have in the past reworded texts to avoid detection by Turnitin. It is not that hard. If you would like to send me a sample quote I will demonstrate. I am a computer scientist, with a background in Physics, so a completely different subject area to those would be good to make the challenge worthwhile. Actually I am on the side of the "educators" rather than the "police", but the "police" do have a valid argument as I hope to demonstrate. Looking forward to your reply! jamesM ************************************************************************* You are subscribed to the JISC Plagiarism mailing list. To Unsubscribe, change your subscription options, or access list archives, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PLAGIARISM.html *************************************************************************