Turnitin: Inculcating Ideology, or Enforcing Proper Attribution

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 19, 2006 10:49 PM EDT
Free Software Magazine; By Matt Barton
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A few months back on Kairosnews, we had a long discussion with Michael Bruton, a representative of Turnitin, a commercial "plagiarism detection and prevention service." In short, the question was whether it was ethical for teachers to use the service, since it involves uploading students' essays into turnitin.com's database, where they will ostensibly be encrypted and then used to guard against its being used illicitly in the future. Students at various schools across the country have protested the software as well, arguing that (a) the service is very expensive, and student's don't want to pay for it, and (b) they feel it violates their "intellectual property rights."

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