Turnitin Report Assignment

A week ago, we completed an inclass activity that demonstrated how plagiarism software such as Turntin works. Now that you have experienced how plagiarism detection software can be used by teachers to check the originality of student work (although such software is not always perfect), it is time to see how to use this software to improve your writing.


There are many issues related to the social, ethical, legal, and human issues of technology. We have discussed plagiarism and copyright law. This report is to examine the issue of gender bias. The report must be one to two pages (double-spaced) should answer the following questions:

• What is the definition of gender bias (as related to the use of computers)?

• Is there evidence that a technology gender gap and gender bias exist?

• Why are girls in their adolescent years losing interest in computers?

• What are the differences and similarities between how males and females perceive and use technology?

• What role do parents, educators, and manufacturers have in encouraging (and discouraging) technology use among females?

Write on the given topic in YOUR OWN WORDS. You not need to add a reference list or in line citations for this assignment (Note that you should do so in most writing assignments: this is the exception rather than the rule). Once you are through writing the report, submit the new document through Turnitin as the assignment Report. The report duplicate count should be 25% or less. If not, you will need to revise your work until the percentage goes down. Submit a hard copy of your revised paper and the Turnitin report to the instructor and an electronic version to your IT Portfolio folder on your flash drive.

You may find the following online resources helpful:

Association for Computing Machinery report on the gender gap
http://www.acm.org/press-room/news-releases/nic-interim-report/

BBC News report, “Gender Gap Alive and Well Online”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4555370.stm

Closing the Technological Gender Gap
http://www.edutopia.org/computer-science-technology-gender-gap

Young Women Steer Clear of Tech Careers, http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LOCAL/westcentral/07/06/tgm.women.tech/index.html

PEW/Internet, How Women and Men Use the Internet
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/171/report_display.asp

Gender and Computer Games
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol11/issue4/hartmann.html

For the Tuesday night class this is due on April 13 at the beginning of class
For the Monday/Wednesday class this is due on April 14 at the beginning of class