Originality… the courage to dance one’s own dance!
Your originality lies in your courage to be fearless, and in your courage to dance your own dance, writes leading Indian dancer and choreographer Aditi Mangaldas.
Indonesia’s Biggest Hybrid University at the Forefront of Safeguarding Academic Integrity
Universitas Terbuka prevents plagiarism using the Ouriginal text-matching solution. The goal is to provide every student with the chance to develop their full potential.
Originality – are we encouraging it in our classrooms?
When running a workshop for a primary class once, instead of asking students to take out pencils to write, I asked them to find some way to write (a task). In my mind, I imagined students would simply take out their pencils. Little did I know how creative and original students could be. From crayons […]
Best ways to promote originality with every assignment
How can we reduce the opportunity to cheat? Fraud happens due to three factors. Learn how to tackle each of them with every given assignment.
Business and originality – its importance is ever growing
Content is king in every business. It defines your business, your product and service offerings – and in order to be different and interesting to your customers, it needs to be unique.
How critical thinking boosts your students’ originality: An overlooked superpower
While being a key for successful careers and unique ideas, why is critical thinking in students overlooked and underrated so often?
The Future of Writing Style Analyses: Ouriginal Metrics as a Learning Analytics Tool
In the last two parts of this series (part 1, part 2) on computational linguistics and writing style analytics, we mostly discussed how stylometry can be used to detect ghostwriters. Besides this scenario, Ouriginal Metrics could also be used as a learning analytics tool to analyze students writing styles, help them to improve their writing skills.
Computational Linguistics To Uncover Ghostwriters And Unfair Contract Cheating – And Its Limitations
According to previous theoretical discussions and experimental results in stylometry, genre and topic interference can make differentiation between authors harder. This is because shared word and phrase usage that accompanies writing on the same topic as well as the writing conventions for particular genres make it difficult to identify a strong authorial signature to be used for author verification.
The challenges of contract cheating in education and solutions to overcome them
How does one define originality? As mentioned earlier, there is no one way to define this term. A simple Google search reveals a myriad of meanings and explanations for originality.
The Cambridge dictionary defines originality as the quality of being special and interesting and not the same as anything or anyone else.