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Digitising Source Materials:A virtual archive for Level
One Historians
Gavin RandHistory, Greenwich
aims
To develop a digital archive of ‘primary’ source material
relating to the ‘Indian Mutiny’ of 1857
To explore the educational and pedagogic possibilities of the turnitin plagiarism-detection
system
the ‘Indian Mutiny’
method
I assembled a range of original 19th century sources which I was
able to digitise in order to form a ‘digital archive’
I then devised a source analysis exercise to introduce students to the pleasures and pitfalls of
historical research
the digital archive
rationale
The digital archive allows our students do some ‘proper’
archival research…
so it includes some sources which are less relevant and a few
‘hidden gems’
All of the assignments produced by students were subject to scrutiny by
the turnitin plagiarism-detection software
The turnitin originality reports were then used as the basis of group
tutorials in which students read each other’s work to identify examples of
good and bad practice
and tune them up!
and tune them up!
outputs/legacies
Student feedback on the exercise was positive – especially re:
source analysis
The digital archive continues to grow, and I’ve just acquired a
collection of mutiny-related drawings by Indian school
children which will be used in next year’s archive
outputs/legacies
I am developing further turnitin exercises designed to foster
good academic practice, including a précis exercise set
up to invite plagiarism to demonstrate ‘what not to do…’
From next year, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences will introduce turnitin across all
of our Level One courses