I think Dr. Wright forgets that students pay to be at a university and that universities serve them (the customer). This has gone unrecognized in the Turnitin discussion. Also, employment agreements are to protect the "for profit" trade" knowledge. elw@stderr.org wrote:
did nothing to stop it. The parallel here would be if a school required students to accept accept use of TurnItIn - which is a legitimate action (consider the requirement to sign a non-compete or non-disclosure agreement as a legitimate requirement for employment, or an agreement to sign an academic honesty statement) - in order to be part of the student body.
These are not nearly parallel. You're asking students to send their papers to a for-profit company *not of their own choosing* for assessment. That's radically different from asking them to sign an academic honesty statement, and certainly different from the legal mire that is non-compete and non-disclosure agreements. Schools already provide a legitimate plagiarism detection tool - they're called "faculty". ;-) [If those faculty don't feel that they're able to detect plagiarism - well, that's another track of discussion.] --e _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ --------------------------------- Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit.