How to Prevent and Spot Plagiarism Dr. Beth Gordon Klingner Dr. Amy Martin Dr. Beth Gordon Klingner Faculty Institute May 2004

Turnitin Overview Turnitin is an online plagiarism prevention system and a complete web-based class management solution. Turnitin addresses every aspect in the lifecycle of a student paper: • Digital submission • Originality checking • Peer Review • Online grading • Aggregation of digital portfolios

Turnitin’s Purpose To deter plagiarism To hold students accountable To determine the congruence of text to sources To enhance teaching and student learning

How Turnitin Can Help Deters plagiarism before it happens Saves time in the investigation of the originality of student work Allows for efficient citation verification Provides documentation of any alleged plagiarism Provides resources to assist in teaching research and writing skills including proper citation

What Turnitin Searches 1. A current and archived copy of the publicly accessible Internet (more than 4.5 billion pages indexed) 2. Millions of published works from ProQuest databases and The Gutenburg Collection of literary classics 3. Millions of student papers already submitted to Turnitin since 1996

Originality Report

Getting Started With Turnitin 4 Easy Steps: Create a User Profile Use the “Wizard” to create your first class and your first assignment for that class Log into your Turnitin home page to add more classes Submit papers

Where to get more Information Turnitin www.turnitin.com (510) 287-9720