TURNITIN? TURNITOFF: The Deskilling of Information Literacy

Year 2015, Volume: 16 Issue: 3, - , 06.07.2015

Tara Brabazon

https://doi.org/10.17718/tojde.55005

Abstract

Plagiarism is a folk devil into which is poured many of the challenges, problems and difficulties confronting higher education. This article investigates how software -Turnitin in particular- is ‘solving’ a particular ‘crisis’ in universities. However, I investigate how alternative strategies for the development of information literacy offer concrete, productive and imaginative trajectories for university staff and students.

Keywords

Plagiarism, intellectual integrity, information literacy, higher education

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