1. Zoë Devlin & Clare Wiggins Katy Mann Develop your academic writing with Turnitin

2. The University of York

3. Skills gaps in student cohort On-line sourcesCitationParaphraseCommon knowledge

4. The principles of the project at York Formative Self- directed Supported space Sustainable

5. The process: 1 hour workshop Presentation & upload Test / evaluation Support site & confidential blog

6. Scaffold approach

7. Project phases Drop-in workshops, self-selecting students Primarily international students Five academic cohorts Delivered by academic skills officer Phase 1: Pilot (Feb – Sept 2010) Departments invited to participate 18 depts agreed (30 cohorts) Greater mix of students Drop-in workshops continued Delivered by postgrads who teach Phase 2: Roll-out (Oct 2010 – March 2011)

8. Evaluation – test results 84% correct answers after one hour’s training No difference between the 2 project phasesSome variation between academic depts

9. Evaluation survey “I feel confident about interpreting the originality report from Turnitin”: 88% agree / strongly agree No difference between the 2 project phases, but variations between academic departments “I have received enough information about using Turnitin to develop my academic writing”: 96% agree / strongly agree

10. Students commented in evaluation “Great and ingenious application – catch me red-handed. It is good to know that I should go back and re-write.” “Great idea to introduce this tool to all students, especially to foreign (sic) who still learn “academic” English. Well delivered short course. Perfect length.” (International student) + “Useful to have a session to explain –probably could have figured it out just with the ppt.” “I think that two sessions could be better, because some people like me are a little bit slow to understand these tools :)” (Mature student) -

11. How do students use Turnitin? 70% students upload one draft only 20% upload 2 drafts 10% upload several drafts 86% make no changes or only minor changes 1% made major changes 13% had a lot of matches but made no changes

12. After using Turnitin do you feel that you:

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15. Sustainability Turnitin licence: £944 + 60p per student Workshop: PGWT = £26.75 ph UG facilitators = £6.83 ph To train 50 students = £54.07 Employability: skills for PGWTs and UG facilitators

16. Lessons learned PGWT – select, train, shadow Group size Clarity on access to “submission points” Greater department engagement / presence Clarity on access to further help Sharing of Turnitin access with friends Length and content of test Avoid duplication with Academic Integrity tutorial

17. What next? Approved by University Teaching Committee, March 2011 Continue drop-in workshops Evaluate submissions – tag, track and double mark Semi-structured interviews with UG/ PG students Distance Learning module being piloted and evaluated