[Air-l] turnitin issue

[Christopher Lueg]

On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Marj Kibby wrote:

>If an assessor suspects plagiarism - on the basis of all of those methods 
>that we have been using for decades - and finds some evidence to support 
>that suspicion, then they can access the Turnitin report and use it to 
>locate additional evidence.

Turnitin cannot replace subject expertise and search experience. I had 
assignments assessed to consist of about 50% replicated text but some 
additional checks revealed at least 90% were replicated from various 
sources (all available via google etc IIRC).

c.


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