Turnitin is paying the travel costs of some of those who are speaking here. This year's meeting also comes at a time that Turnitin is trying to encourage different kinds of presentations to the composition meeting. In other cases, the study found that Turnitin didn't necessarily identify the correct source of plagiarized materials. The researchers reported that many of the instances of "non-originality" that Turnitin finds aren't plagiarism, but are just the use of jargon, course terms or the sort of lack of originality one might expect in a freshman paper. But that finding shouldn't necessarily cheer Turnitin. Generally, the study found that Turnitin was much more likely than competitor SafeAssign (which is part of Blackboard) to identify material as being potentially not original. The team found that services that theoretically detect the same sorts of problems actually find (or don't find) very different examples of possible plagiarism. On Thursday, at this year's meeting, a team from Texas Tech University presented data that challenged the plagiarism detection services in a new way. Past meetings of the Conference on College Composition and Communication, which attract thousands of composition and rhetoric instructors, have featured sessions debating the uses of such services. One area within academe where skepticism of plagiarism detection services has been high is among those who actually teach writing. And even as some question the educational value of trying to detect and punish plagiarism, services that review papers for lack of originality are popular with many college administrators and professors.
SAN FRANCISCO - Student plagiarism drives professors crazy.
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