Latest Plagiarism Stories

OAKLAND, Calif., April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- A survey probing the concerns of editors and editorial staff at scholarly publications indicates that ethics issues top the list of their most pressing challenges. The survey results will be discussed at a live webcast this Thursday, April 25. Registration for the webcast is open. The study, conducted by iThenticate, the leading provider of professional plagiarism detection technology, queried 120 journal editors and staffers about...

Educators use Turnitin's SEER rubric to grade most popular website sources in students' written work OAKLAND, Calif., April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Turnitin , the leader in originality checking and online grading, today announced a new interactive website, "Ratings for Top Student Sources" that ranks the most popular online sources found in student papers using the Source Evaluation Education Rubric (SEER) developed by Turnitin. Turnitin partnered with a team of educators who...

The research support company gets recommended by reputed colleges in UK. (PRWEB) April 10, 2013 An achievement for Chanakya Research came in the form of appreciation by a group of leading colleges in UK at a conference of erudite members. The Research Evaluation Conference was held at Nottingham in the first week of April. In the conference, held for discussing research papers produced by scholars in the past year and exploring new areas of research, the college representatives...

ICAI, SEE and Plagiarism Today sponsor event with theme "Originality Matters" OAKLAND, Calif., April 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Turnitin, the leader in originality checking and online grading, today announced Plagiarism Education Week April 22-26, an initiative to call attention to plagiarism in the classroom from the perspective of educators and students. Turnitin has partnered with prestigious organizations dedicated to addressing plagiarism as sponsors for the event, including the...

CHICAGO, Jan. 31, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Questia (www.questia.com), the premier online research and paper-writing tool for students, today announced the release of its interactive research tutorials designed to improve students' abilities to write even better research papers faster. Instructors suggest 10 hours or more to complete the final paper, recognizing the many steps involved to craft an effective research paper. For their part students know that writing a research paper can...

OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- iThenticate, the leading plagiarism detection and prevention technology for scholarly publishing, today announced the launch of a new report view for screening written work for plagiarism and duplication. The report view, called Document Viewer, enables users to view an uploaded submission in its original format, including images, tables and graphs. The Document Viewer framework streamlines and speeds up the plagiarism checking...

OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Turnitin, the global leader in originality checking and online grading, today announced a website evaluation rubric to teach students how to analyze and grade the academic quality of the Internet sources used in their writing. The development of The Source Educational Evaluation Rubric (SEER) is in response to recent studies finding that students over-rely on Internet-based sources with questionable academic value. Turnitin worked...

Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A new study set to be published in the online journal mBio today claims that, statistically, men can’t be trusted when it comes to scientific research. According to research from Rutgers University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, male researchers are more likely to commit scientific fraud than their female counterparts. What’s more, this misconduct occurs at each rung of the professional ladder...

OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Turnitin, the global leader in originality checking and plagiarism prevention, today announced the results of its annual plagiarism study which indicates that secondary school students in the United States lean more heavily on social networking and content sharing sites for their research while college students depend more on encyclopedia and news sites. Reliance on cheat sites and paper mills remains stubbornly high for both...

OAKLAND, Calif., Jan. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Turnitin, the leader in originality checking and online grading, today announced its Spring 2013 schedule of free 30-minute webcasts to help educators improve student writing skills. Several of the initial webcasts will focus on Internet sources students utilize in their writing and best practices in combating plagiarism. Nearly 8,000 educators have registered for the webcasts since they began in January 2012. To register for a...