In at least one of the cases, the student received failing grades for his work just because he refused to submit his assignments to Turnitin. In 20, two McGill University students refused to submit their work to the Turnitin database in classes that mandated their using the service (2). Though the March 2007 filing is the first lawsuit in the United States to be brought against Turnitin, it is not the first time students have expressed concern with the plagiarism detection software. It will be impossible in such short space to provide the kind of depth and breadth of research that a subject like this demands for that reason, I have provided an additional list of references which should serve as a solid starting point for further inquiry. In the following brief report, I will describe the context and motivation for the 2007 lawsuit, the details and central points of debate surrounding the case, and the implications that the case has for the rhetoric and composition classroom. In the years since, has continued to grow and evolve, and is now recognized around the world as Turnitin and iThenticate, the internet’s most widely used and trusted resources for preventing the spread of internet plagiarism. Encouraged by a high level of interest from their peers, the researchers teamed with a group of teachers, mathematicians, and computer scientists to form, the world’s first internet-based plagiarism detection service. IParadigms, the company behind Turnitin got its start in 1996, when a group of researchers at UC Berkeley created a series of computer programs to monitor the recycling of research papers in their large undergraduate classes. (“turn it in”) is a for-profit service used by over 6,000 academic institutions in 90 countries (1). In March 2007, two students at McLean High School in McLean, Virginia along with two students at Desert Vista High School in Phoenix, Arizona filed a lawsuit against, a California company hired by their respective schools to aid in the fight against plagiarism.
Zimmerman (Pipkins), James Madison University
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