[Xmca-l] Re: Help with Plagiarism software

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It's Weber-Wulff.  Though Wuff sounds nice :-)

An example:
https://www.ephorus.com/news/plagiarism-detection-software-test-2013/

Rob

On 02/07/2014 17:30, Mack, Nancy J. wrote:
> See the work of Weber and Wuff for a study about the ineffectiveness of software.
>
> Nancy
>
> Dr. Nancy Mack
> Professor of English
>
> ________________________________________
> From: xmca-l-bounces+nancy.mack=wright.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu <xmca-l-bounces+nancy.mack=wright.edu@mailman.ucsd.edu> on behalf of Charles Bazerman <bazerman@education.ucsb.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 11:43 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Help with Plagiarism software
>
> There was some discussion of this issue on the Writing list WPA-L some time ago and the archives are open if you want to search.  if I remember the gist it was that google scholar searches were much more reliable as were several open access alternatives to Turnitin and similar products. In my own experience i found a simple system of doing exact word searches on the most sophisticated formulations, of perhaps a sentence or long phrase in length, from papers I suspected.  It almost always took me rapidly to the copied source.  Then once the suspicion was confirmed I could do more thorough text comparisons, as well as looking for other cut and paste sources.
>
> Chuck
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, July 1, 2014 8:09 pm
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Help with Plagiarism software
> To: "eXtended Mind, Culture Activity" <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
>
>> Google scholar works pretty well
>> On Jul 1, 2014 7:41 PM, "Elinami Swai" <swaiev@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> My university is in the process of instituting plagiarism check for
>>> all the MA and PhD theses and dissertations.
>>> The IT guys say it is too expensive (about US $ 50,000) and this has
>>> led to shelving the idea for now. I will appreciate if anybody can
>>> give me a pointer and options.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards.
>>> Elinami
>>>
>>> --
>>> Dr. Elinami Swai
>>> Senior Lecturer
>>> Associate Dean
>>> Coordinator, Postgraduate Studies
>>> Faculty of Education
>>> Open University of Tanzania
>>> P.O.Box 23409
>>> Dar-Es-Salaam
>>> Tell:255-022-2668992/2668820/2668445/26687455
>>>   Fax:022-2668759
>>> Cell: (255) 076-722-8353; (255) 068-722-8353
>>> http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Womens-Empowerment-Africa-Dislocation/dp/
>>> 0230102484
>>>

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