Turnitin UK: Electronic Plagiarism Detection By Catherine Ogilvie Department for the Enhancement of Teaching, Learning and Assessment (DELTA)

What is plagiarism?

(

plagiarize

plagiarized

, or

plagiarise verb

plagiarizing

)

tr & intr

to copy (ideas, passages of text, etc) from someone else's work and use them as if they were one's own. CHAMBERS HARRAP PUBLISHER LTD, 2005. Chambers reference online. [online] Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. Available from: http://www.chambersharrap.co.uk/chambers/chref/chref.py/main?q

uery=plagiarise&title=21st [Accessed 19 September 2005]

Video clip

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Turnitin UK: Electronic Plagiarism Detection  Electronic comparison on student’s work against electronic sources  Over 80% of UK universities  Database of previously submitted work  Internet sources, books, newspapers and journals  8 billion web pages  Web-based system  Cannot solve plagiarism  Produces an ‘Originality Report’

What does the system compare against?

 Database of previously submitted material  Over 8 billion web sites  Essays from cheat sites  Several databases including GALE InfoTrac, OneFile database ( http://www.gale.com/onefile )  Emerald Publishing Data and the Gutenburg Collection of Literary Works

Why are we using it?

 Self diagnostic tool  Avoid inadvertent plagiarism  Raise awareness of plagiarism  Trying to prevent the occurrence of plagiarism (as opposed to detecting)  Take corrective action where necessary  A tool for the students own benefit  Queries or concerns contact your tutor

The Tutors

 Create an account  Log onto the service  Create a ‘class’  Create an assignment  Check submissions electronically

The Students

 Create an account  Log onto the service  Join the class (set up by the tutor)  Upload the relevant documentation to the assignment area  Receive a digital receipt  View the originality report

Originality report

 Produced in a few minutes (though may take up to 24 hrs)  Colour coded and/or numbered to indicate any matching text  Ability to exclude quotations/bibliography  Demonstration

Demonstration

 http://www.submit.ac.uk

Review

 Raising awareness  Tutors register details online  Students register details online  Tutors then create ‘classes’  Assignments are attached to ‘classes’  Students then submit assignment online

Additional Information

 Enrol in more than one class  To be used as a diagnostic tool  If any problems contact your course tutor

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Additional Information

Virtual Campus My Modules, Plagiarism Detection Service, Released Topics Plagiarism Leaflet Collusion Video Instructors & Students Guides FAQs JISC Plagiarism Detection Service ( http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk

) Turnitin Plagiarism Detection Training Videos ( http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/pdsguides_video.p

hp ) Jude Carroll’s Good Practice Guide

www.submit.ac.uk/newuser_type.asp

Demonstration

Demonstration

References

 Rowell, G.

An introduction to TurnitinUK® plagiarism detection software

. [online] JISCPAS. Available from: http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/plagiarismvideos.php

[Accessed Sept 2007]