23/03/2024
I promise to tell story about how sometimes educational company uses informational system for checking plagiarism without fully legal and testing integration such systems in their business activities.
easy you can be disqualified if you'd not protect your boundaries and continuingly proof your position.
You know that I study in Cambridge Institute for Sustainability leadership and I really enjoy this course and did my best.
Honestly said this course is good as the first step into sustainability and you can take it if you would like to get broad overview on the topic. Perhaps it wasn't truly right choice for me, because during last two years I became quite mature in this topic, but I needed formal education, so it's somehow influenced on my choice.
Last week I got letter from Cambridge Institute for Sustainability leadership that i was accused in plagiarism because 50% of my work was submitted as not original context.
To say that i was surprised is nothing to say, I was crushed, especially I hadn't doubt and assure that it can't be true.
If we go to definition and investigate what is plagiarism, so it is presenting work or ideas from another source as your own, with or without consent of the original author, by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement.
According clause about "Plagiarism" of Honour code of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability leadership plagiarism is form of cheating and they defined several types of such phenomenon (direct, mosaic and accidental plagiarism).
However the Honour code od Cambridge doesn't consist any clauses about procedure of how institute is secure plagiarism, what kind of management system is used for it.
I requested from CISL clarification and transparency proofs of plagiarism of my work and it's interesting that I didn't get any documental proofs about it. Afterwards I decided to check my work with free tools and three of them defined that there wasn't any percent of plagiarism.
So next step I sent to CISL my screens, afterwards I got letter with excuses lengthy explanation that the system is only on testing and they use the best tool Turnitin fro checking AI in students work and maybe "translation" and using studying as second language can give such result.
However I never translate from Ukrainian into English because I write in English directly and in this work I used only my own words.
I decide to go further and familiar myself with Turnitin and interesting arbitration clause, which consists broad limitation of liability clause that offers a student practically no recourse for damages the student might sustain as a result of Turnitin's acts or omissions, even if Turnitin had been previously advised of the possibility of damages.
So let's imagine I'm very sensitive person and I didn't go further in defending myself and appeal instead of it I got depressed and got all other phycological issues.
CONCLUSIONS:
1) Always read all Terms and conditions when you sign for anything.
2) Always require writing proofs of charge.
3) Use alternative sources and tools which help you to proof your position.
4) Using such tools as Turnitin must be define in the Policies.
Taking in account that actually Turtin would not have any responsibility if there would be proved damages to the third party, I'll reestimate legal governance of educational companies for using it just in case.......