What does turnitin look like

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• What does turnitin look like?
• How does turnitin work?
• What material is checked?

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• When work is submitted to turnitin, markers
  get back a list of students with a colour coded
  originality report. Red means that a lot of the
  text in the assignment matches web sources or
  journals .

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From the list, the marker can click on the
individual assignment to display the assignment
(on the left hand side of the screen) and a list
of the sources used (on the right hand side).
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Scrolling through the assignment, text is
highlighted in a colour which matches the source.
The text on the left here matches text in a
2003 article by Heming.
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The marker can click on the highlighted
text on the left to display the source text on
the right. Here, someone has copied material,
word for word, from Heming. (Giving the
Twycross and Wilcock reference as Heming had
and not citing Heming is also a problem!)
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The system also highlights when source text
has been copied but then altered a little bit.
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It also highlights when source text has
been crudely paraphrased or reordered.
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All web source text can be identified
even wikipedia and similar sites. It also
checks against the work of other students.
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Here someone has given a reference earlier
in the paragraph but should still have used
quotes when using verbatim text (especially as it
was in quotes in the original).
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So what you do to avoid these problems?

• Take care over your notes for assignments
  always make sure that you know what is copied
  text and what is your personal note.
• Check your school referencing guide carefully for
  how to reference different types of material.
• Make sure that you reference all source material
  generally in quotes with names/dates in the
  text. (A general footnote or mention in the
  bibliography is not enough.)
• Citing all material means that and includes
  dictionaries, wikipedia, newspaper articles etc
  etc. If in doubt give a citation. Remember
  that we need to assess your work.
• Work through the on-line tutorial at
  www.ncl.ac.uk/right-cite
• Check out other guidance material at
  www.ncl.ac.uk/right-cite
• Ask your tutor for help if you are still unsure
  what to do.