Turnitin is a web-based tool for 'text-matching' - identifying documents having similar texts.
Turnitin compares the full-text of a document with the texts of documents indexed in its database, web pages, papers published in journals, online books etc, and produces a detailed 'originality report.' which includes a 'similarity index'.
Also, it is a platform for assignment submission.
Turnitin compares the full-text of a document with the texts of documents indexed in its database, web pages, papers published in journals, online books etc, and produces a detailed 'originality report.' which includes a 'similarity index'.
Also, it is a platform for assignment submission.
No. Turnitin does not check for plagiarism in a piece of work. (What is plagiarism?)
Turnitin does only text matching. Text similarity does not mean one's work is plagiarised. (Turnitin misconceptions)
High percent of similarity does not indicate one's work is plagiarised, and vice versa. (False positive / negative)
Faculty/Instructors must interpret similarity on a case by case basis, and take a decision.
Faculty/Instructors must consider acceptable norms of text similarity.
Turnitin does only text matching. Text similarity does not mean one's work is plagiarised. (Turnitin misconceptions)
High percent of similarity does not indicate one's work is plagiarised, and vice versa. (False positive / negative)
Faculty/Instructors must interpret similarity on a case by case basis, and take a decision.
Faculty/Instructors must consider acceptable norms of text similarity.
The report The use of Turnitin at the University of Oxford: A guide for tutors, examiners and administrators (Education Committee, University of Oxford, 2019-2020) says Turnitin can be used in two modes:
"Formative, which focuses on a tutor or supervisor working with a student to encourage and develop acceptable academic writing and citation skills; or
Summative, which checks a piece of examined work to measure the extent of text matching between the student’s work and other electronic sources. Students do not receive a copy of these Similarity Reports."
You may see the report for more information.
"Formative, which focuses on a tutor or supervisor working with a student to encourage and develop acceptable academic writing and citation skills; or
Summative, which checks a piece of examined work to measure the extent of text matching between the student’s work and other electronic sources. Students do not receive a copy of these Similarity Reports."
You may see the report for more information.
Only JGU faculty members/instructors have control over Turnitin. They will employ it when they want to test the originality of the documents such as assignments, reports, dissertations and papers, submitted by the students.
Faculty members may write to turnitin@jgu.edu.in for account creation, and for training and orientation.
Faculty members may write to turnitin@jgu.edu.in for account creation, and for training and orientation.
See Instructor guide for video tutorials.
Faculty/instructors might ask students send their papers by email and run similarity check.
However, there is high possibility that instructors would ask students to submit papers directly on Turnitin.
This process will require students register with Turnitin. Once this is done, students will get email alerts on assignment submissions.
Students can use the 'class ID' and 'enrollment key' which the instructor will provide to submit papers.
However, there is high possibility that instructors would ask students to submit papers directly on Turnitin.
This process will require students register with Turnitin. Once this is done, students will get email alerts on assignment submissions.
Students can use the 'class ID' and 'enrollment key' which the instructor will provide to submit papers.
Write to turnitin@jgu.edu.in for account creation and training.
Write to turnitin@jgu.edu.in for account creation, personal assistance and training.
However, the videos given in this platform would be of help to you:
However, the videos given in this platform would be of help to you:
If sections of a class are taught by other instructors or by teaching assistants, a class with sections can be created in Turnitin. A top-level master class is created to oversee the section classes. (See)
Most instructor and student activity on Turnitin occurs within the class or classes created by an instructor. (See)
False positive - high similarity score not because of plagiarism:
- Turnitin may show high similarity to a paper, if draft or other versions of the same paper is already stored in the repositories of Turnitin.
- When one checks similarity of a paper using different accounts, Turnitin may show high similarity.
- There is a possibility that one could have copied from a source which is not indexed by Turnitin.
- One could have copied from sources which are available only in print.
Originality report shows each of the matches in more detail, including the source(s) that Turnitin has found.
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The similarity score is percentage of a paper's content that matches to contents of papers in Turnitin's databases; it is not plagiarism assessment. (Source)
