Anonymous wrote:Ok, what is turnitin? I just looked and what does it have to do with plagiarism?

It is a system/program that checks for plagiarism. You upload a composition, and turnitin finds any examples of sentences/paragraphs, etc. that are duplicated from articles/papers on the web, and identifies the original sources.

It is fool proof. You can start an account and use it to check your own kid's work before he/she submits an assignment (to look for unintentional failure to provide parenthetical citation of a source that is being quoted indirectly). Many schools use turnitin in their English Departments.

When I was in grad school, I used turnitin to prove that I HADN'T plagiarized a paper.

Anonymous wrote:This thread is 3 years old.

And there are people who can still learn from it, genius.

Anonymous wrote:There are computer programs that run the work through to see if it is plagiarized from anything online. Once you read something doing research, it's very hard to paraphrase it. Why don't you run his essay through one of those programs and see what pops up.

Turn It In is one such program we used with students. It scans the paper. You can do a general Google search using lines from a student's paper. I've caught a few kids stealing from those essay sites. Kids aren't that savvy.

Ok, what is turnitin? I just looked and what does it have to do with plagiarism?

This thread is 3 years old.