turnitin @ wfu

Need to check a paper? Go to: www.turnitin.com

Quick notes about Turnitin:
What is Turnitin's purpose?

Turnitin's teaching benefits:

Deters plagiarism before it happens
Saves time in the investigation of the originality of student work
Allows for efficient citation verification
Provides documentation of any alleged plagiarism
Provides resources to assist in teaching research and writing skills including proper citation

What Turnitin Searches:

Current and archived copy of the publicly accessible Internet pages (more than 12 Billion Web Pages indexed)
Millions of published works from ProQuest databases and The Gutenberg Collection of literary classics
Over 90 Million of student papers previously submitted to Turnitin since 1996
Over 12,000 Major Newspapers, Magazines & Scholarly Journals indexed

Resources from Plagiarism/dot/Org:

Turnitin is administered at WFU Beth Boyd and Steven Wicker.

Need Access?

Faculty may contact Steven Wicker to obtain a Turnitin Account. Please be sure to include your department affiliation in body of email.
Students can create their own Turnitin accounts after receiving a class ID and an enrolment password from their instructor.

Tips for Avoiding Plagiarism (Extracted from Professor Jessica Richard’s Don’t plagiarize! PPT)

Faculty Guide:

Using the Turnitin service directly Updated Nov. 18, 2011.
Faculty Guides at Turnitin
Sakai: Currently Turnitin is NOT integrated with the WFU instance of Sakai. However, you have access to all the functionality of Turnitin by going directly to the Turnitin site. Faculty may submit student work or Faculty may require the students to submit their own work. A link to Turnitin from within Sakai can be added for convenience.

Workshops for Faculty:

Student Guides:

Note: You must create your own login. Turnitin does not use your standard WFU username and password combination.
Submitting papers into Turnitin
Student Guides at Turnitin

updated: 3/28/2011