Here’s the link to our University of Wolverhampton guidelines: http://www.wlv.ac.uk/default.aspx?page=32434

Best, Carol

 

Carol Bailey

Senior Lecturer in English for Academic Purposes

Co-ordinator: Postgraduate Academic English Language Development

University of Wolverhampton

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Along with following Diane Schmitt’s recommendations, I think this is an excellent idea. Lecturers and students don’t understand the reports, and, as Diane suggested, Turnitin focuses on the plagiarism of words and not the dissemination and proper reuse of ideas.

 

Emma Duke-Williams described students saying “what’s an acceptable %?” but my students from across the university report lecturers saying “Your paper must be below X%” similarity.” Lecturers feel when faced with a stack of marking, “I don’t really understand similarity reports, and what’s the point of Turnitin if I have to crawl through each report? Faced with the student survey that’s cutting my marking time, how does it help me increase my speed of marking?” So they give a simple, arbitrary number. In my experience, 17% is pretty common.

 

Best wishes,

Erik Borg

Coventry University

 

 

 

Hello,

 

I have been reading your recent strings on Turnitin and I was hoping that you could help me.

 

In the near future I will be pulling together a working group at Waterloo to develop best practices for the interpretation of originality reports with Turnitin & iThenticate. To date, I have been unable to find a lot of information on this process, and I wondered if any other institutions have developed their own guidelines for the interpretation of these reports. I’d appreciate any insights you may have.

 

Thank you!

 

Regards,

 

Amanda McKenzie

Office of Academic Integrity

Office of the Associate Provost, Resources

519-888-4567 x38562

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