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 TurnItIn checks your paper for originality
 The majority of papers submitted through
D2L are run through turnitin
 An originality report is created
 Billions of internet documents (online papers,
journals, websites, etc)
 Archived internet data that is no longer available
on the live web
 A bank of previously submitted papers (at OU and
other institutions)
 The originality report gives a summary of
matching similar areas of text found in your paper
as compared to its search of multiple documents
and sources.
 This report will appear as a percentage
 The higher the percentage, the higher amount of
matching text that was found (i.e. the words in your
paper closely match the words in another document)
 Percentages show in rages with matching colors
 This report gives professors a tool to locate text similar
to your work. It does not necessarily mean you
plagiarized in your paper.
 It is left to the professor to determine if proper citation
was used or if plagiarism occurred.
 Papers with a higher number of citations are expected
to have a higher percentage.
 Ex. evidence based practice paper
 Papers without as many citations are expected to have
very low percentages.
 Ex. Family of origin paper
 The instructor will see each submission with
its corresponding rating on their D2L account.
 The instructor can click on each individual
percentage to view a complete breakdown of
each incidence of matching
 This breakdown will include where each
similar text was found within the paper
and what percentage of entire paper was
matched
 The instructor can then click on each
similarity to find it in the paper to see how
it was used and cited.
 Obviously, if a phrase is identical to another
source, as long as it is properly identified, it
won’t be plagiarism
 Some instructors can select an option for students to
be able to use turnitin BEFORE they submit a paper on
D2L.
 For more information, please visit
https://www.turnitin.com/static/traini
ng/student.php