Plagiarism

Created on April 13 2012
... Over 50 percent of plagiarism comes from other student’s work. Turnitin compares submitted papers to a database of over 300 million papers in the Turnitin paper database. Each day, the Turnitin student ...
Created on April 13 2012
Incorporate an Instructional Support Tool At Eastern Michigan University, teachers use Turnitin as an efficient and paperless instructional support system that speeds up the feedback process with comprehensive ...
... for 28 years in the Lake Washington School District in Redmond, Washington. He shares below his experiences with Turnitin, the world's No. 1 originality checking and plagiarism prevention service from ...
... students are driven to succeed. "Along with that comes plagiarism," says AP language arts teacher Ron Talas, "because you have people trying to get any edge they possibly can." Ina Artzt, AP literature ...
Created on April 13 2012
... plagiarism, and targeting instruction to areas where students are struggling. University of Evansville Evansville, IN  ...
Created on April 13 2012
... a self-checking strategy and deterrent to plagiarism. Thomas Dale High School Chester, VA Public School  ...
Teach Students How to Recognize Plagiarism At Abraham Lincoln Traditional School, teachers using Turnitin save time reviewing papers for plagiarized material and provide students with guidance on how ...
Created on April 13 2012
... technology became more widespread and intentionally used, teachers at Air Academy noticed that incidents of plagiarism were on the rise as well. The temptation to cut and paste was just too great, and ...
Created on April 13 2012
... assignments, Schulman also had isolated concerns about the originality of her students' work. "We have dealt with the issue of plagiarism in the past," said Schulman, "especially in cases where students ...
Created on April 13 2012
Address Plagiarism in a Virtual Environment Instructors at Coastline Community College use Turnitin to help students develop their writing voices and to teach them proper citation methods, especially ...
Created on April 13 2012
... and Refine Their Ideas Dr. Valarie Arms is associate director of the freshman writing program. "We were seeing a lot of plagiarism," she reflects. "A consultant worked with me to create assignments ...
Created on April 13 2012
Shift Perceptions of Plagiarism in a Digital Age With changing student perceptions of what constitutes plagiarism, it is challenging to combat plagiarism in today’s digital age. Instructors at Kentucky ...
Created on April 13 2012
Teach Proper Citation Techniques At Steffen Middle School, teachers use Turnitin to promote original thinking and to help students learn how to paraphrase and cite information properly. As students improve, ...
Created on April 13 2012
Celebrating 20 Million Graded Papers On October 4th, we reached this historic milestone, and we think it's cause to celebrate! Since the launch of GradeMark in Turnitin, over 20 million student ...
Created on April 17 2012
Support Services Working with nearly 10,000 institutions and over 850,000 instructors has taught us how to put our knowledge to work and focus on your success. To maximize your investment, our customer ...
Created on October 31 2012
Formative Writing Tools for Students Developed by the creators of Turnitin, WriteCheck helps students check for plagiarism, correct grammar and receive feedback from professional tutors on their written ...
Created on March 13 2013
Resources This section contains documentation on Turnitin and its role as an E assessment and plagiarism detection tool. The information has been categorised into different areas of study and includes ...
Created on May 23 2013
... the #1 misconception: that Turnitin detects plagiarism. But isn't that what Turnitin is - a plagiarism detector? No, Turnitin does not detect plagiarism per se; Turnitin just finds text that matches ...
In our first blog "Does Turnitin Detect Plagiarism?” we said that Turnitin does not detect plagiarism but, rather, generates a similarity index indicating text matches to the Turnitin databases. Instructors ...
Created on May 23 2013
Some students believe that they can "beat" Turnitin by employing various tactics. Instructors should rest assured that these tactics do not work as our algorithms take such "tricks" into account. In addition, ...