Scriptovia.com - New Site For Students To ‘Share’ Work
A new startup, Scriptovia.com announced its existence to the world this week. Scriptovia.com provides an area where students from all over the world can ‘collaborate and share resources’. Hmm, sounds a lot like a site to where essays can be downloaded to avoid doing the work yourself to me.
Aseem Badshah, Scriptovia.com’s founder had the following to say about the site:
“The site is very similar technology to YouTube or Flickr, but for academic documents. In the Scriptovia community, students can post their schoolwork – essays, class notes, lab reports, presentations, and more – so that others can view them, discuss them, learn from them, as well as critique them,”
I have no idea how teachers are going to stay on top of sites like Scriptovia.com. Because of the reach of the internet, a good essay from a course in Los Angeles could be submitted as far away as a university in Glasgow.
In my dayit was easy to spot to plagiarism at University, as there weren’t that many sources that you could use. That wasn’t to say that we didn’t trade essays, but they weren’t traded to be submitted as our own work, they were used to work out how the best people on the course picked up more marks.
At the end of each year it was almost a tradition that the ‘essay folder’ containing all the best economics essays from the previous yeargroups, was handed down to the year below, with any good new essays that had been written over the course of the year added to the folder. In the final year you’d even find second years waiting outside exam halls to make sure that essays were handed down.
I wish I still had some of the essays in my possession, as I bet that if I did a word search, I’d find some essays that I recognise.
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Comment by Aseem Badshah on 31 May 2007:
Hello,
We take your concerns of plagiarism very seriously and address these concerns here: http://www.scriptovia.com/plagiarism.aspx. The site was not made to act as an essay mill or cheating heaven, but instead to do exactly what was described in your last half of the post. Now students from all over the world can compare essays and learn through example.
-Aseem
Comment by Everton on 31 May 2007:
Thanks for the comment Aseem. Aren’t you concerned that the majority of your users could be using it to cheat at school?
Comment by Dan and Jennifer on 31 May 2007:
Ah, the conveniences of today’s day and age. “Back in my day”, we had to do this stuff the hard way.
Have an awesome day!
Dan
Comment by listikal on 31 May 2007:
Yeah, like actually use an Encyclopedia, and NOT Wikipedia kids. I’d love to see what today’s Bibliography’s look like.
Comment by Rohit on 2 June 2007:
Sounds like a nice idea but the deciding factor will be the kind of community that the site attracts. A good positive community of students will do the service a world of good.
Comment by Aseem Badshah on 3 June 2007:
One of the reasons we decided to launch Scriptovia is because we have already had a proof-of-concept out for 2 years. Our proof-of-concept was called ThinkEssay.com and allowed students to upload, read, and comment on essays. ThinkEssay accrued more than 5,000 members and about 400 essays with no marketing efforts whatsoever. From this we learned that the students who used the site were students who cared about their education and would come to learn through example and springboard their own essays. Over the two year period we worked closely with both students and teachers to get feedback. Not once did we receive a report of the site being used for plagiarism or cheating and we also did not receive any complaints from teachers. See: http://doughman.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/initial-thoughts%e2%80%94who-thinks-what/ for more on this.