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

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Originality Report

7. 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

8. Where to get more Information
Turnitin
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