Turnitin what is it good for

Turnitin what is it good for

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  Turnitin: what isit good for? John Parkinson (CAPE) Centre for Academic Practice Enhancement, Middlesex University
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  Aims • Explain Turnitinin the context of Plagiarism and Academic Integrity • Explore how Turnitin can be used by Educators and Students • Provide guidance on how Turnitin can be utilised by educators to help students improve their academic writing skills and to avoid unintended plagiarism In this short presentation I hope to accomplish the following:
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  What does Turnitindo? • Turnitin does NOT detect Plagiarism • Turnitin highlights ANY content in a student submission that matches material from a range of sources at it’s disposal and presents this in a detailed report • This report can be used to identify material within a student’s work that MAY require attention if plagiarism is to be avoided.
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  • The Turnitinsystem lives on a dedicated website and is not owned by Middlesex University • MDX educators with Teacher access to modules within the Unihub My Learning environment can create Turnitin assignments for their students using a Turnitin ‘plug in’ available within the module activities toolset • This plug in allows educators to create Turnitin assignments on the Turnitin website and automatically creates a link to these assignments within the My Learning module itself. Where is Turnitin?
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  Turnitin Repository andreach • Approximately 45 Billion webpages • 110 million content items from publishers • 400 million student papers submitted to other Turnitin assignments Chris Harrick, Turnitin vice president of Marketing, 2014
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  The Turnitin Lifecycle
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  Let’s take a lookat a Turnitin Similarity report … The Similarity Report
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  It is importantto emphasise that: • The total similarity percentage is not the whole story - underlying matches are key • Matches are not plagiarism if appropriately acknowledged • Turnitin can only find matches with content available to it – many key texts may not be available to the system • Not all Turnitin assignments are setup to add the student submissions to the Turnitin database The Similarity Report
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  Uses and Abusesof Turnitin It is important to have a clear understanding of the use of Turnitin as a punitive OR supportive and developmental tool. •Punitive – educators can run student submissions through Turnitin without the students knowledge or consent – is this appropriate in modern educational establishments? •Supportive and developmental – offer students Turnitin as a tool that can help them work more effectively with research content and cite this content correctly.
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  Some final thoughts •Anyone can pay for a Turnitin account and run work through this without adding this to the Turnitin repository • Some people who make a living writing academic work for students love Turnitin: http://blog.unemployedprofessors.com/how-to- beat-turnitin-com/ • Here’s one of several studies outlining the benefits of using Turnitin alongside guidance on how it can be used most effectively: http://www.researchinlearningtechnology.net/index .php/rlt/article/view/17218/html