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Abstract
The previous article, entitled “Part One: Turnitin and the Perils of Entering the Evil House of Cheat at Cheathouse.com” was constructed entirely from the unmodified parts of other academic work. The plagiarised article was sent to the Turnitin anti‐plagiarism site; this article analyses the subsequent results. Plagiarism is a perennial problem for lecturers as the sheer amount of information available on the Internet is making the process of marking a laborious one. The new so‐called plagiarism‐busting software adds a new weapon to the armoury of the lecturer at war with the student plagiarist. It is proposed that Turnitin can provide a valuable service to lecturers, the software being best used as a teaching tool to raise student awareness. A bulk marking academic may well encounter problems when using this piece of software for large amounts of marking. Turnitin is only likely to bring victory if used in conjunction with digital submission and other plagiarism prevention strategies.
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Department of Law, Sheffield University