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December 2010
Turnitin Newsletter
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GradeMark to Add Essay Scoring Engine
 Turnitin has partnered with Educational Testing Service (ETS) to integrate its e-rater® Scoring Engine technology with Turnitin's GradeMark®. e-rater uses natural language processing techniques and provides instructors with fast, diagnostic feedback on grammar, usage, mechanics, style, organization, and development, to augment their assessment of student work. Look for the e-rater capability for English language submissions later in 2011.
Read the entire press release >>
New Product Features and Enhancements
 We're constantly working to improve our services in ways that make a real difference in the daily lives of our students, instructors and administrators. As part of that effort, we created a new Product Updates blog to keep you informed of the improvements. As we release improvements to our products, we'll post them at http://community.turnitin.com/productupdates.
December's product update release features:
- Download and Print - Instructors and students can now download and print a printable PDF view of any paper from within the document viewer.
- Import/Export of QuickMark Sets and Rubrics - Instructors can now import and export QuickMark sets and Rubrics.
- Text Comments - Instructors can now make text comments directly on the paper within GradeMark.
In early January, we will be making improvements to the sidebar navigation within OriginalityCheck. You can learn more about these feature enhancements at the Turnitin Product Updates Blog. Stream the RSS feed directly to your RSS reader or into your institutional support website for up-to-date notifications. 
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User Events
Want to learn more about best practices with Turnitin? Do you have ideas to share with fellow administrators and instructors on how to use Turnitin to improve student performance? Please join us at one of our Turnitin User Events near you.
Birmingham User Event
3 Feb 2011
Birmingham, UK
More Info / Register
Upcoming Webinars
PlagiarismAdvice Webinars
Every Wednesday
Jan 19 - Feb 23
19 Jan: Getting the message across to students
26 Jan: How and why students plagiarise
2 Feb: Identifying and tackling plagiarism
9 Feb: Designing plagiarism out of coursework
16 Feb: Best practice for dealing with academic misconduct
23 Feb: Institutional policies and procedures
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In The News
The Chronicle of Higher Ed: The Shadow Scholar
 A fascinating and chilling look at the world of writers for hire.
"I'm a hired gun, a doctor of everything, an academic mercenary. My customers are your students. I promise you that. Somebody in your classroom uses a service that you can't detect, that you can't defend against, that you may not even know exists." Read the entire article at The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Bedford Bits: An Easy-as-Apple-Pie Plagiarism Lesson
 Traci Gardner shares an easy and relevant lesson plan around plagiarism. Students read about some recent controversy about plagiarism in the publishing industry, which opens up a discussion in the classroom.
Read more about it at Bedford Bits >>
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Supporting Academic Integrity
 Dr. Erica Morris from the Academic Integrity Service (AIS) has written and compiled an excellent guidance report for universities and colleges to manage the complex issues of student plagiarism, collusion and data fabrication. The report, Supporting Academic Integrity, discusses how the use of Turnitin can play a part in the development of students' academic writing, and includes several case studies which review Turnitin and its associated benefits.
Download the full report here >>
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PlagiarismAdvice.org International Advisory Board
 We are delighted to welcome Dr. Teddi Fishman to the international advisory board of PlagiarismAdvice.org, an educational web site that helps students and instructors with academic integrity issues. Dr. Fishman is currently affiliated with the International Center For Academic Integrity. She joins other academic integrity experts such as Dr. Mike Reddy, Dr. Jo Badge and Dr. Erica Morris.
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Scheduled Maintenance
 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, 3 PM to 7 PM GMT (click links for local time).
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Season's Greetings from iParadigms
 As another year comes to a close, all of us at iParadigms join in saying thank you, and wishing you a happy holiday and a prosperous new year.
The iParadigms Team
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