View the original Turnitin Newsletter for May 2010

Turnitin Works to Reduce Unoriginal Content and Plagiarism

Research results reveal that when secondary schools and higher education institutions use Turnitin® consistently and over a period of years, students become better writers and researchers—they create work with more original content and learn appropriate ways to use and cite source material. With continued use of Turnitin, educators can reinforce appropriate ways to use information year after year, across all disciplines.

Today’s educators are struggling to promote academic integrity at all levels as they develop tomorrow’s writers and researchers. Independent research studies reveal that student cheating, fueled by heated competition and pressure, is pervasive. Turnitin helps motivate students to produce more original, properly cited work—giving teachers a powerful opportunity to teach about plagiarism. Download our effectiveness whitepaper.

Turnitin User Event – Denver, Colorado

The Turnitin User Event will bring together users at a variety of experience levels and will provide an opportunity to learn and connect with each other as well as the Turnitin team. This free 2-hour meeting will feature:

• panel discussions on best practices.
• brief presentations by “power users” on user-chosen topics.
• a sneak preview of our next-generation version of Turnitin.

This free event is scheduled for Sunday, June 27, 2010 (3-5 PM) in Denver, Colorado—the opening day of the ISTE Conference (formerly called NECC). If you are planning on attending ISTE or will be in the area, we want to hear from you! Please click here to fill out an interest form.

NewsBits

Singaporean Universities Choose Turnitin

Turnitin has been adopted by all four universities in Singapore. Turnitin is used across the universities’ curricula and is available to tens of thousands of educators and students at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore Management University (SMU) and SIM University (UniSIM). Read more…

Identifying Potential Plagiarism In Translated Documents

iParadigms announced that it has licensed Language Weaver’s automated translation technology, enabling Turnitin to identify plagiarized content that has been translated from English into other languages. This capability will be incorporated into Turnitin by the end of 2010. Read more…

Scheduled Downtime

All Turnitin services and related websites may be unavailable for use during scheduled maintenance times. Times for these scheduled maintenance windows are the first and third Saturdays of each month, 7:00 AM to 11:00 AM Pacific time.

Events

Fourth International Plagiarism Conference

June 21 – 23, 2010
Northumbria University,
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
iParadigms is a proud sponsor of this event that brings together the international educational community to share their experiences, expertise, and advice in creating a culture of honesty.
http://www.plagiarismadvice.org/conference

Turnitin User Event @ ISTE

June 27, 2010 @ 3:00pm (MDT)
Hyatt Regency Denver
Denver, Colorado
The Turnitin User Event will bring together users of all experience levels and provide them with an opportunity to learn and connect with each other as well as the Turnitin team.
http://turnitinusereventdenver.eventbrite.com/

ISTE 2010

June 27-30, 2010
Denver, Colorado
Visit the Turnitin booth (#2066) at ISTE 2010 to get a first look at what’s coming for Turnitin. ISTE 2010 (formerly NECC) is the premiere event for education technology professionals worldwide.
http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/2010/

View the original Turnitin Newsletter for May 2010