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How Much Do You Know About Turnitin's Content?
How much do you know about our content? Here are some facts and figures. Check out the blog post .
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15 IRL Student Excuses for Missing Class
It's good to find humor in setbacks. Here's a humorous listicle with 15 IRL student excuses for missing class. Check out the listicle on the blog .
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How to Pick the Best Plagiarism Checker
At Turnitin, we believe the best solution to plagiarism is deterrence and to turn instances of plagiarism into opportunities to facilitate original thinking.…
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9 Books to Read for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
As we wrap up May, which is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in North America, we want to remind you of this reading list. The Asian diaspora is large and diverse,…
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7 Ideas for the Last Day of Class
Whether you're in the Northern Hemisphere or the Southern Hemisphere or Eastern or Western--there's always a last day of class. Here are some ideas to help wrap up your academic year.…
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How to Address Academic Integrity in Your Syllabus
We shared some of our thoughts on incorporating/addressing academic integrity in your course syllabus. I decided to include some real-life examples from my own course syllabi since we teachers love…
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How to Motivate Originality with Student Book Choice
When we’re teaching writing, it’s important to make reading accessible and intersectional with student interests. In this blog, we’ll examine how and why reading lists are formed throughout a…
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Drastic Measure: A Short Story About Contract Cheating by Julia Tereno
The most powerful voices on contract cheating are from students themselves. With this in mind, Turnitin invited students from the UK and Ireland to share their thoughts on the subject.…
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How to Address Academic Integrity in your Classroom
Educators are consistently advised to create a “culture of integrity” within our classrooms. So how do we go about establishing such a culture? 1. First things first,…
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Students Against Contract Cheating: Competition Winners
Creative winners, Rachel Baylis and Alice O'Dowd, share their thoughts on the rising issue of contract cheating. Sometimes known as ghostwriting, contract cheating is the practice of engaging…
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Operation Varsity Blues and the Importance of Integrity
When Jennine Capó Crucet , author of the award-winning novels How to Leave Hialeah and Make Your Home Among Strangers , was admitted to Cornell University,…
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5 Ways to Include Academic Integrity in your Institution's Strategic Plan
Strategic plans for most institutions are structured as follows: FOUNDATION: Mission Statement of Your Institution SUPPORTING STATEMENTS: Your Institution’s Values, Goals,…
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Don't Put Your Institution's Reputation in Jeopardy
Let’s put it frankly: your institution’s academic reputation is essential to your university community, your credibility, and your financial stability.…
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Why Did You Do It? The Psychology of Contract Cheating
Contract cheating is any work someone does for a student (whether paid or unpaid or as a trade for services) that they then represent as their own. It can be:…
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Straight Talk From an Essay Mill Insider: Part 2 of 2
This is the conclusion of our interview with Dave Tomar , a former essay mill writer, current anti-cheating activist, and author of The Shadow Scholar . Part 1 may be read here .…
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Straight Talk From an Essay Mill Insider: Part 1 of 2
Dave Tomar is an author and journalist who has written extensively on music and education. Tomar catapulted to notoriety with his controversial and eye-opening 2010 article in The Chronicle of…
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How In-Class Writing Assignments Prevent Contract Cheating
Earlier this week, we shared a list of tactics crowdsourced from our teacher network, aimed at fighting back against contract cheating. We discovered that in-class writing assignments,…
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Proven Tactics that Combat Contract Cheating
In recent years, an egregious form of plagiarism has been on the rise: contract cheating, the practice of engaging a third-party to complete assignments.…
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How Do You Give Thanks for Teachers?
The season of giving has arrived, but expressing heartfelt thanks can sometimes prove to be a challenge. Whether you’re a student, parent, admin, or a teacher yourself,…
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A Similarity Report to be Proud of
The trick is in the training If you’ve ever suspected that a student has submitted someone else's work, but their paper hasn’t matched against our database, you aren’t alone.…
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Take a Stand Against Contract Cheating
Today marks the 3rd Annual International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating , an event inspired by the unethical practice of contract cheating and ICAI’s unwavering determination to combat…
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A Student's Perspective on Contract Cheating
It’s easy for students these days to feel like they are drowning in tasks. College, and even high school workloads, can be completely overwhelming, and I have often felt like it is impossible for me…
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Integrity Starts with YOU!
Contract cheating, or the practice of engaging a third-party complete assignments, is on the rise, but how concerned should we be? It turns out, very: a recent study sought to investigate the…
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Best 2018 Summer Reads for Educators
As the classroom environment continues to change, teaching must change along with it. With new challenges and obstacles arising every day, it can be hard to keep up.…
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End of Year Reflections
The arrival of summer signals the end of the school year across the northern hemisphere. Restless students, ready for adventures outside the classroom,…
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