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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