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This is "a collaboratively edited question and answer site for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts. It's 100% free, no registration required (Welcome! 2011.02.02).

This post focuses on： The Weapons of War [Hate the metaphor!], The Problems with the Solutions, Setting Up for Failure, and Is There a Better Way? [title case applied]. "There's also an ethical issue with plagiarism checkers - the questionable use of students' work as a money maker for these services. ... Turnitin and the other services are making money off of content that they did not create. Perhaps worse, unlike Facebook where the content owner typically uploads it willingly, students have no say in whether their paper is uploaded by the teacher to the plagiarism checker. Many students and teachers are less than thrilled by this idea. Turnitin has specifically claimed fair use in defense of its use of this content, and in 2008 Turnitin's parent company iParadigms won a lawsuit brought against the company by four students claiming copyright violation. In its ruling, the court agreed that the content's use was indeed fair. 'It is clear that iParadigms' use of the Plaintiff's works has caused no harm to the market value of these works,' Judge Claude Hilton ruled at the time. That has not stopped faculty and students from having qualms about the use of students' papers in a for-profit enterprise." (The Problems with the Solution, para. 4-7)

"You can export your members' profile information at any time from the Manage Members page This will generate a comma-separated (CSV) text file that you can open using a program like Excel. It'll contain information about your members, including their name on your Ning Network, a link to their profile page, their email address, the date they joined, their birthday, and their answers to all of the profile questions on your Ning Network."

Flowchart for "Developing Research Questions and Proposal Preparation" (top level entry)

Coiro, Julie. (2005). Making sense of online text. Educational Leadership 62(2), 30-35. Retrieved September 21, 2011, from http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/oct05/vol63/num02/Making-Sense-of-Online-Text.aspx