@    
             
   

Quick notes about Turnitin:
What is Turnitin's purpose?
Commercial web site: www.turnitin.com

  • To deter plagiarism
  • To hold students accountable
  • To determine the congruence of text to sources
  • To enhance teaching and student learning

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:

Other Resources:
 


   


 

   
 

Turnitin @ WFU

Contact Beth Boyd or Steven Wicker to obtain a username and password, include your department affiliation in body of email.

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

Quick Start resources for faculty @ WFU

Student Guides

Quick Start resources for faculty @ WFU. Note: the below are for the previous version of Turnitin. Currently, Turnitin will allow you to use the previous version if you choose.

 

  
 
      Campus Map  
updated: 10/2/09