Plagiarism Prevention

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Plagiarism Prevention Center of Emphasis for
Teaching and Technology
www.turnitin.com
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Agenda

• Turnitin overview
• Training of Turnitins plagiarism prevention
• Questions/Answers
• Where to get more information

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Plagiarism Statistics
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Turnitins Purpose

• To deter plagiarism
• To hold students accountable
• To determine the congruence of text to sources
• To enhance teaching and student learning

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Teaching Benefits

• 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

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What does it do?

• Compares submitted papers against Turnitins
  in-house copies of both current and archived
  internet content and our proprietary database of
  millions of previously submitted student papers.

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

• Request User Profile
• Send e-mail to
• Lisa Henriksen
• lhenriksen_at_southwest.tn.edu

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Sample E-mail

• From Turnitin Helpdesk mailtohelpdesk_at_turnitin.
  com Sent Friday, April 15, 2005 917 AMTo
  Adams, ElaineSubject You have been added as an
  instructor
• Dear Elaine Adams,You have been invited to join
  the Turnitin account "Distance Education and
  Instructional Technology" by the account
  administrator, Lisa Henriksen.To start using
  Turnitin, go to www.turnitin.com and log in using
  the following temporary information
• Email address eadams_at_southwest.tn.edu
• Password vo7v3u90
• Once you log in you will be taken through a
  step-by-step startup process, and you will also
  have the chance to change your password and any
  other personal information. Keep in mind that the
  temporary password above is case-sensitive we
  recommend that you paste it directly into your
  browser.Thank you for using Turnitin,The
  Turnitin Staff

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Turnitin Overview
Turnitin An online plagiarism prevention system
and a complete web-based class management
solution. Lifecycle of a student paper
Digital submission Originality checking
Peer Review (not available in Southwest account)
Online grading (not available in Southwest
account)
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Originality Report

• Sample from students perspective
• http//faculty.southwest.tn.edu/tblankenbeckler/T
  urnitin_Originality_Report_29040921.html
• Can be saved by student and submitted to
  instructor electronically

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More Information

• Visit the Turnitin Training page
  at http//www.turnitin.com/static/training.html
  
• Plagiarism Prevention Resources http//faculty.so
  uthwest.tn.edu/tblankenbeckler/plagiarism.html
• Important notes about Southwest account
• No GradeMark
• No Peer Review
• Does not integrate with PAWS (D2L)
• Interested in COE training?
• Tell your presenter
• OR
• E-mail Elaine Adamseadams_at_southwest.tn.edu