I got an email yesterday, during my day-long writing marathon, asking my opinion about some new plagiarism detection software. And so now I'm online, saying, yeah, I wouldn't use it, but I guess other people would.
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I had a professor last summer, who ran our papers through 4 different databases to detect plagiarism. Not 1 or 2, but 4! I don't like how it sends the message that the professor automatically doesn't trust the student. You can't have a good relationship with your students if you don't believe in their integrity.
Is there "crappy writing assignment detection software" to detect some *other* problems in the writing class?
Probably not. Let's just focus on the plagiarism.
You're famous, Donna! A librarian with whom I used to be on the local academic integrity committee forwarded me this article.
Jason, do you mean she forwarded the article straight from the student newspaper site? That's kinda wild.
I do mean exactly that. Student papers have a global reach these days.
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