What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is plagiarism detection software supported by JISC. It searches the world wide web, extensive databases of reference material, and content submitted by other students to identify any duplication of text. The software makes no decisions as to whether a student has plagiarised, it simply highlights sections of text that have been found in other sources. In most cases this text will have been correctly cited. All work will continue to be reviewed by the course tutor.
Turnitin is the plagiarism prevention system that SU is using. When a paper submitted to this system, an originality report is produced that shows any matches between your paper and the sources you used in writing the paper. It can also be used to determine if your paper has similarities to other papers submitted in your class or other sections.
Turnitin is a Web-based service that can find and highlight matching or unoriginal text in a written assignment. It uses data-mining to compile a large database of electronic academic materials which it indexes and stores. Faculty can send their students’ assignments to the Turnitin database or else set up to allow students to send their own assignments to the service for checking. Turnitin basically checks the assignment against its database of materials to look for matches or near-matches in strings of text. Turnitin then generates an Originality Report online. The Originality Report summarizes and highlights matching text. Students find the Originality Report useful for editing papers that include too many quotes and paraphrases. Faculty find the Originality Report useful as a tool to teach students proper citation practices and highlight the need for more student originality. Faculty can also use Turnitin as a tool to detect possible instances of plagiarism. It is up to the users o
