TURNITIN.COM - Villanova now using this service... (Score 2, Informative)

I think this is a GOOD thing. Plagarism at the undergrad level runs rampant. If you're not smart enough to do the work - perhaps you should consider an educational path less taxing on the mind.

Subject: Academic Integrity
Importance: High

Welcome back! I hope that you had a wonderful holiday season. I am writing this note to you to give you a "heads up" regarding a new process for which Villanova has contracted to help us enforce our academic integrity policy.

At Villanova, class papers can now go to "Turnitin.com," which is a search engine that compares papers with others from Villanova and with thousands of websites to determine whether the material is the same. Once the search is complete, faculty receive a detailed report of what materials have been copied and from where.

I am telling you this to help you avoid academic integrity violations. Please be VERY careful and provide complete citations for your work; if your professor has indicated that you are to do your work individually, then do your OWN work; and so on. If you have ANY questions AT ALL, please seek clarification from your professor PRIOR to submitting your work to him/her!

I sincerely wish you a very successful semester!

Best regards,
Dr. Victoria McWilliams
Associate Dean C&F