Dear Panos and all, On our programme we are not using any tools to uncover cheating. The programme is changing its assessment structure, which will make it more difficult to have ghost writing. And a colleague and I have developed a workshop to encourage academic integrity. Our thoughts are that we need to explain and explore the relevance of integrity and therefore stop cheating behaviours like that. We are further developing this workshop and teaching module to improve that. With kind regards Nicole Mag. Nicole Brown MTeach, DipTrans, SFHEA Secondary Teacher Education Programme Leader Lecturer in Education UCL Institute of Education 20 Bedford Way London, WC1H 0AL Office: Room 605 Telephone: +44 20 7612 6032 Mobile: +44 78 113 128 38 ________________________________ From: Online forum for SEDA, the Staff & Educational Development Association <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Panos Vlachopoulos <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 08 March 2017 04:46 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Ghost Writing Dear colleagues, I am writing, again, from down under to seek your advice. We are using TurntitIn to support our text matching cases (which is used to identify plagiarism). However, we are receiving more and more cases that are about Ghost Writing. Apart from the expert eyes of linguists who can assist in some extreme cases, are there any other tools that you may be using to assist with such cases? Are you using for example any text analysis tools (e.g. Lexalytics). Or is there anything else to which you can point me? with warm wishes from a still warm Sydney Panos Associate Professor Panos Vlachopoulos Associate Dean Quality and Standards Faculty of Arts Level 2, Building W6A (Room 237) Macquarie University NSW 2109 Australia T: +61 2 9850 7938 F: +61 2 9850 8240 [1487114798479_macquarieUni_sm]