I’ve managed to
login and although it paraphrase short sentences anything of a reasonable length
results in:
Fatal
error: Allowed memory size
of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 571 bytes) in /home1/turnitin/public_html/paraphrase/inc/class.paraphrase.php
on line 563
I put in “During this same period,
the internationalisation of UK HE resulted in a higher proportion of overseas
students coming to study in the UK” but if I delete “UK” it gives
me:
The internationalisation of Britain he
resulted in a higher proportion of overseas educatees coming to study in the,
during this same period.
During this same period, the
internationalisation of
It would offer me more it seems but “The iteration was stopped (limitation is applied to FREE
Trial only).”
However, if that is the best paraphrase it can
do, I’d not want to subscribe. Seems a bit of a con in my opinion!
Or am I missing something?
Lynn J Shaw
Academic Registrar, Professional Higher Education
From:
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2011
4:37 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Turnitin Paraphrase
Colleagues
I’m a little surprised that I haven’t seen much debate
about Turnitin Paraphrase. I’ve tried to sign up for a free trial,
but the log-in screen keeps telling me there’s an error in my
(error-free) email address, so I haven’t been able to test my hypothesis,
but it seems to me to be distinctly dubious. Surely the service will
allow users (our students) to cut text from a published source,
“paraphrase” it by feeding it into the software, and paste it
(without attribution) into their own work, secure in the knowledge that
Turnitin’s other product won’t match it to the original
source. Have I got that right?
Toby Grainger
Head of Student Compliance & Responsibilities
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