My experience with the "turnitin" website hasn't been bad so far. I have had to use it since I started school at USM. I know that most of the teachers require you to use this when you turn in your major papers. They do this so that they can find the slackers who do not uphold the University's policy on plagiarism. I know that most of my teachers required that you had a certain percentage when they pulled up your paper. I am keeping my fingers crossed, because so far I have never been over 4%.
I feel that it is very important to prove the originality of each student's work. It is not fair that to the students who actually try to write a paper on their own, if their neighbor takes someone else's work and tries to pass it as their own. I think that websites such as these help teachers weed through the people who are really trying and those who waited until the last minute to do their assignment.
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Course Reflection
14 years ago
Amanda,
ReplyDeleteI agree, originality or each student's work is important. Unfortunately, many do not do original work and do not get caught. This encourages others to follow in their footsteps. Using tools to force students to do their own work should happen, the earlier the better.
Having this tool available to us as teachers is great. Originality is very hard to come by especially when students are under so much pressure now days. However, it is still very important that we as teachers impress upon them that creating original work is not only ethical but helps build their self confidence.
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