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Links and Information

From the Students' Perspective:

• McLean Committee for Students Rights. Turnitin.com: What's It Really All About?  October 2006
• Brett, Leo.  "Turnitin Terror"  Highlander (McLean, Virginia) Letter to the Editor September 7, 2006
• Donovan, Ben. "Turnitin: It's not just wrong, it's illegal" Highlander (McLean, Virginia) December 14, 2006 
• Letter to McLean High School PTSA Executive Board printed with permission of McLean Committee for Students Rights. "Rebuttal to Mr. Wardinkis's Letter of December 20, 2006"
• Donovan, Ben. "Common Sense" Highlander (McLean, Virginia) April 20, 2007

From the McLean High School Administration and PTSA:

• McLean High School Student Handbook 2006-2007 McLean High School Honor Code September 2006
• What is turnitin.com? McLean High School Administration, Fairfax County Public Schools October 25, 2006
  fcps.edu/McLeanHS/admin/quanda.htm 
• Wardinkski, Paul. "To the McLean High School PTSA Executive Board" December 21, 2006 posted on http://www.mcleanptsa.org
• School Website:  www.fcps.edu/McLeanHS/
• PTSA Website:   http://www.mcleanptsa.org/
• Copy of Contract between Fairfax County Pulic School System and iParadigms LLC

From The Press:

• Glod, Marie. "Students Rebel Against Database Designed to Thwart Plagiarists" The Washington Post September 22, 2006 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/21/AR2006092101800.html
• Glod, Marie. "Score One for McLean High Students" The Washington Post  October 4, 2006 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/03/AR2006100301466.html
• MacMillen, Douglas."Looking Over Turnitin's Shoulder" BusinessWeek.com March 13, 2007 http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2007/tc20070313_733103.htm
• Glod, Marie."McLean Students Sue Anti-Cheating Service" The Washington Post. March 29, 2007 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032802038.html 
• Arnoldy, Ben."Students sue antiplagiarism website for rights to their homework" Christian Science Monitor               April 10, 2007 http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0410/p01s04-legn.htm
• Weiss, Todd. "Students sue online plagirarism detection firm in IP fight over papers" Computerworld.com April 11, 2007

  http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9016198

• Ross, Sarah. "Students bring fight for rights to courthouse"  McLean High School Highlander April 20, 2007

• Righton, Barbara. "How not to catch a thief" Macleans.CA June 11, 2007 http://www.macleans.ca/education/universities/article.jsp?content=20070611_106149_106149

From Parents and Counsel:

• Donovan, David, et. al. "To the McLean High School PTSA Executive Board"  January 8, 2007
• Vanderhye, Robert. Letter to Dr. John Barrie, iParadigms, LLC.  November 15, 2006
• Vanderhye, Robert. Letter to U.S. Department of Education. January 23, 2007
• Copy of A.V, et. al. v. iParadigms, LLC Amended Compaint for Copyright Infringement.  Filed April 16, 2007 in U.S. District Court Eastern Division of Virginia, Alexandria Division

From turnitin.com

• Copy of iParadigms' Complaint for Declaratory Relief v. McLean Committee for Student Rights.  Filed December 6, 2006 in U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Oakland Division
• Turnitin Website:   http://turnitin.com/static/plagiarism.html

Additional Links about turnitin.com

• http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/on_campus/nov06/technology.htm
• http://chronicle.com/free/v48/i36/36a03701.htm
• http://www.essayfraud.org/turnitin_john_barrie.html
• Michael Donnelly, Rebecca Ingalls, Tracy Ann Morse, Joanna Castner and Anne Meade Stockdale-Giesleler. "(Mis)Trusting Technology that Polices Integrity: A Critical Assessment of Turnitin.Com" invetio Fall 2006 Issue 1, Volume 8
• Bishop, Jack. "Using Turn It In at UCLA" December, 2006
• Wendy Warren Austin, Phd. "virginia high school students rebel against mandatory use of turnitin.com"  Conference on College Composition and Communication  June 26, 2007.