2. TurnItIn checks your paper for originality The majority of papers submitted through D2L are run through turnitin An originality report is created

3. Billions of internet documents (online papers, journals, websites, etc) Archived internet data that is no longer available on the live web A bank of previously submitted papers (at OU and other institutions)

4. The originality report gives a summary of matching similar areas of text found in your paper as compared to its search of multiple documents and sources. This report will appear as a percentage The higher the percentage, the higher amount of matching text that was found (i.e. the words in your paper closely match the words in another document) Percentages show in rages with matching colors

5. This report gives professors a tool to locate text similar to your work. It does not necessarily mean you plagiarized in your paper. It is left to the professor to determine if proper citation was used or if plagiarism occurred. Papers with a higher number of citations are expected to have a higher percentage. Ex. evidence based practice paper Papers without as many citations are expected to have very low percentages. Ex. Family of origin paper

6. The instructor will see each submission with its corresponding rating on their D2L account.

7. The instructor can click on each individual percentage to view a complete breakdown of each incidence of matching This breakdown will include where each similar text was found within the paper and what percentage of entire paper was matched The instructor can then click on each similarity to find it in the paper to see how it was used and cited. Obviously, if a phrase is identical to another source, as long as it is properly identified, it won’t be plagiarism

8. Some instructors can select an option for students to be able to use turnitin BEFORE they submit a paper on D2L.

9. For more information, please visit https://www.turnitin.com/static/traini ng/student.php https://www.turnitin.com/static/traini ng/student.php