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What is Turnitin?
Turnitin provides originality checking, online grading and peer review to prevent plagiarism and engage students in the writing process. Turnitin encourages best practices for using and citing other people's written material and offers instructors ways to save time and improve their feedback on the writing process. The service offers a complete web‐based service to manage the process of submitting and tracking papers electronically, providing better – and faster – feedback to students.
How does Turnitin work?
An instructor sets up a class and an assignment in the Turnitin service. Students or instructors then submit papers to Turnitin via file upload or cut and paste. Turnitin's proprietary software compares the paper's text to a vast database of 20+ billion pages of digital content (including archived Internet content that is no longer available on the live web) as well as over 220 million papers in the student paper archive, and 110,000+ professional, academic and commercial journals and publications. Is Turnitin only used by writing instructors? No, Turnitin can be used across disciplines. Any instructor who assigns written work can use Turnitin to check originality, grade online and facilitate peer review.
Is Turnitin only used by writing instructors?
No, Turnitin can be used across disciplines. Any instructor who assigns written work can use Turnitin to check originality, grade online and facilitate peer review.
Adapted from Plagiarism Prevention Tools (SafeAssign and Turnitin
Tutorials & Set Up Guides
Using Turnitin to Improve Your Paper
Several Turnitin features can be used to improve your drafts and enhance the overall quality of your final papers. The following tutorials and "how to" guides can be used to learn more about these features:
- View a Rubric or Grading Form Before Submission
Rubric scorecards and grading forms can be used to evaluate student work based on defined criteria and scales. If your instructor has attached a rubric or grading form to the assignment, ahead of submission, you can view the criteria they will use as a guideline to grade your paper. - Look at the Similarity Report and Similarity Score after Submitting
Turnitin compares papers against an ever expanding database of Internet pages, archived pages that might not be available any more, a subscription repository of periodicals, journals, publications, and a repository of previously submitted papers.The similarity score is a percentage of the paper's matches to other sources; it is not an assessment of whether the paper includes plagiarized material. The similarity report is a tool for instructors and students to easily find matches or similar text within submitted work. - Interpreting the Similarity Report
- Refining the Similarity Report
- Viewing All Sources Associated with Your Paper
- Viewing Source Details
- For more information on using the Similarity Report and Similarity Score see the Student Support Center
- Use Feedback Studio's Writing and Comment Tools
Turnitin Feedback Studio functions includes the following writing and commenting tools that may prove useful to you as your paper progresses:- E-rater
The e-rater grammar feedback technology, developed by ETS®, automatically checks submissions to an assignment for grammar, usage, mechanics, style and spelling errors; providing in depth feedback with on paper marks. - Text Comments
- Bubble Comments
- Inline Comments
- For more information on using Feedback Studio's Writing and Comment Tools see the Student Support Center
- E-rater