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Similarity in the classroom

In our first post in this series, we attempted to truly tease out the distinctions between plagiarism and similarity while squarely placing Turnitin in the similarity arena. If you didn’t read that post, it’s worth a visit, but here is the TL;DR - Similarity is not the same as plagiarism, and Turnitin does not detect plagiarism. 

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    • Emma_DukeWilliams
    • 2 yrs ago
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    I think some staff, in the UK at least, still remember the early days of submit.ac.uk & its advertising saying that it was doing electronic plagiarism detection .. (https://web.archive.org/web/20070208182850/http://www.submit.ac.uk/static_jisc/ac_uk_index.html?session-id=09289f0df9ee6913d22741db2df96671 )
    That's a snapshot from the archived home page from Feb 2007

      • Customer Engagement Specialist, Turnitin
      • Gill_Rowell
      • 2 yrs ago
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      Emma Duke-Williams Wow, that's a blast from the past! How things have moved on, eh?

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