Matrka suggest TurnItIn not so effective in engineering area
Tom Matrka, of the Ohio University business, suggests that TurnItIn is not that effective in determining plagiarism in the area of engineering theses ["Turnitin is not suitable for checking engineering works for plagiarism."] Matrka gives an example of a thesis in the area of finite element analysis.
See a previous IPBiz post concerning other comments by Matrka.
See also
http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/06-07/March/457n-067.cfm
See a previous IPBiz post concerning other comments by Matrka.
See also
http://www.ohio.edu/outlook/06-07/March/457n-067.cfm
posted by Lawrence B. Ebert at 8:21 PM
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Matrka is right, but then no single "service" will be perfect in engineering or in any other area. Turnitin is only as good as its database, and its database consists primarily of other theses and dissertations that have been previously scanned in. So if a student plagiarizes from another student whose thesis is part of Turnitin's database, it will be caught. But if what's plagiarized is a book or journal article, it will not likely be caught. And it will probably never be caught because there is no one single source that has all of the journal articles ever written and all of the books ever written in its database. The only way such plagiarism is ever caught is by accident, when someone reads something, recognizes it as familiar somehow, and starts digging.
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