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How do you treat self-plagiarism at postgrad. level?
Hi all, I'd like to hear how your HE institution treats self-plagiarism (or double submission) at PG level. In some subjects, we may scaffold our assessments (e.g.…
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Using Data to Back up Lecturers' Intuition
Turnitin Originality now surfaces metadata about a student’s submission via the Document Details Insight panel. These details can provide a valuable insight into a student’s research and planning…
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Join the International Day of Action against Contract Cheating
Wednesday 21 October is the 5th International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating led by the International Center for Academic Integrity. As more and more institutions turn to remote and hybrid…
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The Plagiarism Spectrum and New and Emerging Trends
The Plagiarism Spectrum that we developed back in 2012 has always been one of our most popular resources. However, we felt it was due a refresh and our new updated resource,…
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Academic Integrity day/week events: share ideas
Hi everyone, This year, I'm working with some colleagues to organise an inaugural ‘Academic Integrity Week’ at Trinity College, something we’re hoping will become an annual event in the life of the…
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Article / content spinning
I'm looking for information on how to detect article or content spinning. If a student uses these tools on an article they plagiarized can TII catch it? Thank you!
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Checking programming assignments, figures, graphs and tables
Dear friends, How many of you would find the possibility to check computer programs (code excerpts), figures, graphs and tables for originality useful? For us, in computer science,…
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Everyone's a cheat! Right? Unethical and Immoral? Right?
OK! all rules, are created for the 4% or 5% that do the wrong thing. All the while 95% of pundits must comply regardless of cost and inconvenience. But hey, we don't like it, but we get it.…
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Is it plagiarism or similarity?
This week's post on the Turnitin blog discusses the issues of plagiarism or similarity in part one of our debate series on the subject. Of course we know that plagiarism isn't acceptable,…
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Turnitin announces Americas Higher Ed Awards
Turnitin is delighted to announce the winners of The Americas Higher Ed Awards which recognize educators and institutions in the education community that showcase innovation in the fields of…
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SAGE journal retracts 122 papers
A SAGE journal has retracted 122 papers because of “clear indicators that the submission and/or peer review process for these papers was manipulated.” A look at the first three titles suggests that…
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Working with your students to develop an honor code
This week’s Turnitin Blog looks at honor codes and their integral role in an institution’s academic integrity strategy. The blog explores how the process of developing an honor code should be a…
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Join the International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating
Wednesday 20 October, is the 6th International Day of Action (IDoA) Against Contract Cheating, a global call to action to prevent the use of essay mills and contact cheating services and also…
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Plagiarism and academic integrity
A recent blog post looked at the interlinked concepts of plagiarism and academic integrity. How do you present the concepts of plagiarism and academic integrity to your students?…
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Student Voices on Academic Integrity
Do you want to know what today's higher education students really know and understand about academic integrity, and equally how we, as educators, can support them both in the classroom and remotely?…
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Source code plagiarism
A recent Turnitin Blog post discusses source code plagiarism, where students may copy computer code and submit it as their own work. The article makes the valid point that whilst this type of…
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Addressing self-plagiarism
Today's Turnitin blog post addresses the complex and sometimes confusing issue of self-plagiarism or "duplicate plagiarism" as it is also known. The article considers the impact of this topic on…
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Collating Contract Cheating Data
Our final Turnitin Originality blog post this week looks at the new Contract Cheating Dashboard which can quickly provide Academic Misconduct Officers and investigators with an overview of the scope…
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Identifying Intentional Plagiarism
I’m sure many of you will have noticed the new Flags Insight Panel in Turnitin Originality. This draws attention to any text manipulations within a students’ work,…
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Tactics to Prevent Contract Cheating
In a recent blog post we explored a range of practical steps suggested by US-based educators to help prevent students from turning to third parties and contract cheating sites to write their…