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

plagiarize or plagiarise verb
( plagiarized , 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]

 rtsp://194.66.84.167:554/rgu-centralinfo/academic_misconduct.rm

Turnitin UK:
Electronic Plagiarism Detection
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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
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Produces an ‘Originality Report’

 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

 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

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

 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

 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

 http://www.submit.ac.uk

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

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

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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

 Rowell, G. An introduction to TurnitinUK® plagiarism detection software . [online] JISCPAS. Available from: http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk/plagiarismvideos.php
[Accessed
Sept 2007]