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Automated Essay Spinning: An Investigation Into TurnItIn Evasion Techniques

This article explores the mechanisms behind automated essay spinning and the effectiveness of current methods in evading plagiarism detection tools like TurnItIn. It examines various spinning techniques, tools, and document corpora, revealing insights from tests on essay versions generated through multiple transformations. The results indicate that certain automated spin techniques can produce text deemed 'original', albeit often with readability challenges. The investigation highlights the ongoing issue of contract cheating in academic assignments, particularly regarding language translation manipulations.

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Automated Essay Spinning: An Investigation Into TurnItIn Evasion Techniques

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  1. Automated Essay Spinning:an initial investigation Thomas Lancaster Robert Clarke School of Computing, Telecommunications and Networks Birmingham City University

  2. * alternative title *Can TurnItIn be beaten?

  3. Short Answer Yes! work modified with ALT-1055 the letter "e"s in a piece of work werereplaced by the cyrillic letter "e"

  4. May 2008

  5. July 2009

  6. Long Answer Yes! spin the essay version 3 version 1 version 4 version 2

  7. Article Spinning “a search engine optimization technique by which blog or website owners attempt to manipulate their rank on Google and other search engines” source: Wikipedia.org

  8. The Tests • Automatically spin essays into new versions. • are they detected? • Four spinning techniques. • Three tools. • Three corpora of documents.

  9. The Results normalised scores overall combined corpus

  10. Google Translate http://translate.google.com

  11. English -> German

  12. German -> English

  13. English -> English

  14. Spinslate

  15. Spinslate

  16. Multiple Translation • Produces text that is essentially regarded as ‘original’. • Other essay spinning combinations may lead to more (or less) readable text. • Text in its raw translated form is not brilliant ...but …

  17. A Step Further: Contract Cheating Assignments set in Greek. Work is posted in English to be translated into Greek before submission.

  18. Details in document attached to the posting starts:

  19. and concludes

  20. Trace evidence (in Word file) shows source of assignments posted by this person. Work history shows that requesting work set in Greek has been carried out successfully several times before.

  21. Bob Clarke est En Vacance Lorna: “If they have fish, I’ll try the catch of the day” Bob: “If they have WiFi, I’ll also try the catch of the day”

  22. Can TurnItIn be beaten? Yes! (for now) but, so can the cheats

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