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Going beyond Turnitin and Plagiarism
Serge Noiret
EUI History Information Specialist (Ph.D.)
Introduction to Good Academic Practice and the Avoidance of Plagiarism
organized by Prof. Lucy Riall, Prof. Stéphane Van Damme and Dr. Serge Noiret
Tuesday 8 October 2013, 13:10-15:00
Sala Europa, Villa Schifanoia
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What is plagiarism? EUI
definition
‘The deliberate copying of ideas, text, data or
other work (or any combination thereof)
without due permission and
acknowledgement.’
European University Institute, Code of ethics in
academic research, p.14
What should we do to avoid
plagiarism?
1. Copying a paragraph word for word from a source without any acknowledgement.
2. Copying a paragraph, but making small changes, such as changing a few verbs, replacing an adjective with a
synonym, with no acknowledgement.
3. As (2) above, but with an acknowledgement in the bibliography.
4. Cutting and pasting a paragraph by using sentences of the original, but omitting one or two, or putting one or two in
a different order, with no quotation marks. In-text acknowledgement, for example (Jones, 1999) or footnote, plus
full bibliography.
5. Composing a paragraph by taking short phrases from a number of sources and putting them together with words of
your own to make a coherent passage, with no quotation marks. In-text acknowledgement, for example (Jones,
1999) or footnote, for each phrase from each source; full bibliography.
6. Paraphrasing a paragraph with substantial changes in language and organization, the new version having changes in
the amount of detail used and the examples cited. In-text acknowledgement, for example (Jones, 1999), plus full
bibliography.
7. Quoting a paragraph by placing it in block format with the source cited in the text and a full bibliography.
How can you avoid
plagiarism?
Rule 1:
Acknowledge direct use of someone else’s words.
Rule 2:
Acknowledge any paraphrase of someone else’s
words.
Rule 3:
Acknowledge direct use of someone else’s idea(s).
What is Turnitin ?
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Conceived 14 years ago by John Barrie and three other students at the UC Berkeley
to offer new forms of peerage & as an instrument to discover plagiarism in
scholarly writings
The first paper added to the Turnitin Student Paper Repository was submitted on
September 20, 1999.
With Turnitin you will discover who is quoting the same source and in which
context so to decide wetter you should or not quote the same excerpt of text or
the same source.
Furthermore, you are reminded to use the best way to quote a source in your
bibliography. This is done looking at other papers quoting the same source
What is plagiarism?, URL: [http://plagiarism.org/], is a website created by Turnitin
itslef to inform you about the topic.
Turnitin is using three main databases to look for originality: More then 24 bilion
web pages are indexed; More then 300 milion student papers archived in
repositories worldwide are checked; More then 120 milion essays in books and
journals are analyzed.
Turnitin 3 content databases
When a paper is submitted to Turnitin, it is compared against 3 databases of content:
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The Current and Archived Web: Similar to Google and Bing, Turnitin has built a
web crawler that crawls the Internet and indexes content into a searchable form.
Turnitin currently contains over 24 billion web pages from the current web as
well as archived web pages.
Student Papers: 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 database grows by
190,000 papers.
Content Partnerships: Turnitin has partnered with leading content publishers,
including library databases, text-book publishers, digital reference collections,
subscription-based publications, homework helper sites and books. These
partnerships have contributed over 110 million additional articles to the
databases.
Turnitin: a self-check tool for
the sources of your quotations
• Submit your paper online: http://turnitin.com
– First originality report generated relatively quickly, depending on
the size of the paper
– One paper at a time! Previous submissions will be overwritten and
they cannot be retrieved
– Originality reports for subsequent papers require a further 24
hours to be generated
– Texts are not stored in repositories or databases
– Only you can see your submission and also in text mode to access
the sources when you are out of Turnitin
Turnitin: checking for
originality
What will not be identified as plagiarised
• phrases of 3 words or less
• ‘quotations’
• Bibliography
What will be identified as plagiarised
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block quotations without quotation marks
identical passages
partially paraphrased passages
Using Turnitin beyond Plagiarism:
THATCamp Leadership 2013?
Turnitin Home Page for EUI
users
Turnitin concepts in the EUI
environment
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«Teaching Assistants» = EUI Professors
«Admin/Instructor» = Rhoda Lane (ICT)
Students» = everybody using Turnitin at EUI
«Join an Account» = asking EUI Helpdesk if
you are a fellow; researchers will get one for
2013-2014. (Verifying with Anna Coda)
• Submit queries to EUI helpdesk
Originality Check EUI
Submission page
• Turnitin prepares an
"originality report"
on how the submitted
work compares with
other documents.
• It can also evaluate
students' papers for
spelling, grammar
and structural errors.
• Could we use the
software for textmining and context
searching ?
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Tested in Turnitin
1.A paper on
Collective memory
and Cultural
Identity downloaded
from JSTOR
2.S.Noiret: Digital
History 2.0 in a
September 2013
Peter Lang edited
book.
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Your EUI outlook Digital
Receipt
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Document Viewer before
originality check
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Document Viewer after
asking for originality check
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Originality Report Overview
• Shows percentage of
sources matched
• Colour coded text to
indicate matches to
sources in database
• Compare your text with
the source text
• Parameter filtering option
(word matches, quoted
text, bibliography)
• Print or download and
save the link to the report
to your computer via the
‘Text Only Report’ option
Document viewer v. Text
only Document
Document viewer
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Filtering the originality report
• Click the Icon bottom right
• You may exclude the
bibliography and/or the
quotes
• You may decide to change
the default EUI settings to
more than 4 words
• Abandon or not the multicolor highlighting
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Confronting my text with
other sources
• Click the
number
• The
publication
opens in a
pop-up
window
• You may ask
to view the
Full Source
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Turnitin and Teaching
Platforms from en.Wikipedia
• Some virtual learning environments can be
configured to support Turnitin
• Student assignments can be automatically
submitted for originality analysis and provide
various forms of Turnitin integration.
• Blackboard, Moodle, ANGEL, Instructure,
Desire2Learn, Pearson Learning Studio, Sakai,
Studywiz
WriteCheck another commercial
software by Turnitin
Papers to be tested against the same
databases used by Turnitin (WriteCheck is
part of iParadigm, the company behind
Turnitin)
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Students against looking at
plagiarism in 2004
«We are guilty
until proved
innocent» he sais
and refused to
submit his papers
to Turnitin.
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Video Tutorials: how to use
Turnitin ?
About OriginalityCheck
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Viewing Originality report
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Text-Mining ?
Rousseau online
Contacts at the EUI
For any technical issues regarding Turnitin,
contact the EUI Helpdesk at
http://helpdesk.eui.eu