Online Writing Tools, Like Turnitin, Focus on Teacher Development, Student Engagement (eSchool News)

If there’s one skill that everyone agrees all students must learn across the curriculum, it’s how to write well—and the move toward adopting the Common Core State Standards adds even greater urgency to this effort.

A suite of software from Turnitin helps students improve their writing through PeerMark, which allows students to evaluate each other’s writing online, OriginalityCheck, a plagiarism detection service, and GradeMark, an automated essay scoring tool.

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