Wednesday, November 10, 2010

TurnItIn Assignment

This assignment was particularly interesting because students get to use a vital tool that will help them in all of their classes. Students can type papers and get results back stating whether or not it is plagiarized or not. It is incredibly important for students to know what plagiarism is and how to properly avoid it. This site is an important resource that will help students to be able to determine what is and is not copied. Students can use this website for any class that they take whether it is in high school or college. This is a great resource to keep and continue using. Not only does this help students but it also helps teachers and helps them to recheck their students. They then know without a doubt that their student’s assignments are completely original. Students can also submit the assignment multiple times and properly quote sources to give proper credit to those people. This tool could be very useful in teaching nontraditional students how to write papers. A lot of them have been out of school for quite some time and need a little extra help as far as making it their own. Papers are not like they used to be nor is the education field. The standard used in this assignment is 1c. which states: promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. This tool encourages students to write papers without worrying about possibly plagiarizing a source.

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