On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Marj Kibby wrote:
If an assessor suspects plagiarism - on the basis of all of those methods that we have been using for decades - and finds some evidence to support that suspicion, then they can access the Turnitin report and use it to locate additional evidence.
Turnitin cannot replace subject expertise and search experience. I had assignments assessed to consist of about 50% replicated text but some additional checks revealed at least 90% were replicated from various sources (all available via google etc IIRC). c. -- Dr. Christopher Lueg Professor of Computing University of Tasmania Centenary Building R451 Hobart, TAS, Australia christopher.lueg@utas.edu.au http://www-staff.it.uts.edu.au/~lueg/ CRICOS Provider Code: 00586B