Evaluate Text Matching Essay
Critically evaluate the use of text matching software as an aid to developing good scholarship practice
By
JEERAWAN TANTISOOK
N0573741
BUSI48505 Developing the Effective and Responsive Practitioner
Nottingham business school, Nottingham Trent University
13th October 2014
Word count 749 words
By the year 2000 of higher education in the United Kingdom, many universities bring advanced software technologies to develop the way for student’s learning especially student literature. Because nowadays the key or the most important indicator that the teacher or professor gives more significant than other criterions to measure student succeed or failed in learning could be student’s written paper. According to Okoro (2011), some students who do not have enough knowledge to create their work …show more content…
Finally, show where is the information repository that student take from and how is evidence in student’s written paper reliable.
The text matching tool can assist learners in many ways of good academic practice development. TurnitinUK is one of the most popular plagiarism detection software. The software allow student to submit their work online then it will match every words in student’s work with any electronic information sources. As a result, student will receive the percentage of matching between learner’s literature and the original text. If it reports the percentage in high rate, educator should concern that their writing quotes the information from the author too much and gives the credit to the original source or not. However, some teachers and students focus on the overall percentage matching too much without realize that the words which is highlighted is a theory or critical thinking. Rowell claims that ‘Teacher cannot rely on the overall percentage summary since a 40% match, for example, can mean very different things. Is it one chunk of text? Or an accumulative total based on many small snippets? Is it 40% copied in the methodology
By
JEERAWAN TANTISOOK
N0573741
BUSI48505 Developing the Effective and Responsive Practitioner
Nottingham business school, Nottingham Trent University
13th October 2014
Word count 749 words
By the year 2000 of higher education in the United Kingdom, many universities bring advanced software technologies to develop the way for student’s learning especially student literature. Because nowadays the key or the most important indicator that the teacher or professor gives more significant than other criterions to measure student succeed or failed in learning could be student’s written paper. According to Okoro (2011), some students who do not have enough knowledge to create their work …show more content…
Finally, show where is the information repository that student take from and how is evidence in student’s written paper reliable.
The text matching tool can assist learners in many ways of good academic practice development. TurnitinUK is one of the most popular plagiarism detection software. The software allow student to submit their work online then it will match every words in student’s work with any electronic information sources. As a result, student will receive the percentage of matching between learner’s literature and the original text. If it reports the percentage in high rate, educator should concern that their writing quotes the information from the author too much and gives the credit to the original source or not. However, some teachers and students focus on the overall percentage matching too much without realize that the words which is highlighted is a theory or critical thinking. Rowell claims that ‘Teacher cannot rely on the overall percentage summary since a 40% match, for example, can mean very different things. Is it one chunk of text? Or an accumulative total based on many small snippets? Is it 40% copied in the methodology