Archive for the ‘Plagiarism’ Category

Stories of Plagiarism, Theories of Writing: How Public Access of Plagiarism Reveal Circulating Theories of Writing

Rhetoric and Writing Studies have long attempted to bend plagiarism complaints toward theories of writing and learning. Media coverage and institutional discourse, on the other hand, continue framing plagiarism as an isolated, individual problem (Adler-Kassner, Anson, & Howard, 2008). And so we find plagiarism exhaustively covered and still exhausting. Given decades of stalemate, one could […]

Unicheck Debuts AI-Powered Contract Cheating Detection

Plagiarism and cheating prevention software company Unicheck has introduced Emma, an artificial intelligence tool for authorship verification. Campus Technology  

£1.3 billion Turnitin sale spotlights intellectual property fears

The $1.8 billion (£1.3 billion) sale of Turnitin has highlighted the growing power of the company that produces plagiarism-checking software used in universities across the globe, and raised questions about its business model. Concerns about the sale of California-based Turnitin to Advance, a technology, media and communications company, have focused on the intellectual property held […]

Cheating and Plagiarism in E-Assessment: Students’ Perspectives

The aim of this study was to identify students’ perceptions on cheating and plagiarism and trust in e-assessment according to their assessment experience and mode of learning as well as exploring their concerns in e-assessment. Participants were 952 students from two public universities in Turkey and Bulgaria. The study was designed as a cross-sectional survey. […]

Exploring Intentional Use of Technological Proxy, Turnitin, to Enhance Student Academic Literacy Practice

Current pedagogical practices have seen the rapid spread of technological tools that carry out tasks on behalf of the learner; we use the term technological proxy to refer to these tools. A popular technological proxy used by students worldwide is a text-matching software called Turnitin. Turnitin alerts users to sections of an assignment that appear […]

A Closer Look at the Unplag Plagiarism Checker

What makes you try a new tool that performs the same functions as the one you’re already using? Perhaps there are some inconveniences with your current tool that you’d rather do without. Or maybe you’ve heard from others the new tool is easier to use and more powerful. After all, it’s always good to try […]

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