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Turnitin

Turnitin Plagiarism detection, deterrent & prevention

Turnitin plagiarism prevention and originality checking service is recognised as the worldwide standard for detecting, deterring and ultimately preventing internet plagiarism, collusion, ‘assignment recycling’ and ‘essay banking’. It also protects students’ original work from being used without citation by another person, and serves as a learning tool to help academics and students better identify and correct unintentional plagiarism, poor referencing and other information literacy issues. Turnitin’s comprehensive plagiarism prevention system allows academics to quickly and effectively check students’ work in a fraction of the time necessary to scan a few suspect papers using a search engine.

Turnitin's Originality Checking allows tutors to check students' work for improper citation or potential plagiarism by comparing it against continuously updated databases. The output of this checking, the Originality Report provides instructors with the opportunity to teach their students proper citation methods as well as to safeguard their students' academic integrity.

Plagiarism Detection Service
Features	Benefits / Comments
hosted by Northumbria Learning	dependable, scaleable and widely used throughout UK H.E.
increasingly extensive database	Turnitin is the most comprehensive system available and compares student submissions with: - over 12 billion web pages - over 60 million previously and contemporaneously submitted student assignments - over 10,000 major newspapers, magazines & scholarly journals - thousands of digitised books
access to a growing range of electronic journal databases	- EBSCO, 41,000 titles added to the repository over time - Cengage titles, 10,000 titles, 50 million articles - Cross-Ref, which includes; ACM, BMJ, CUP, OUP, Elsevier, Springer, Taylor & Francis For a full list of members and content see http://www.crossref.org/crosscheck_members.html
supports multiple formats	assignments can be in doc, docx, pdf, html,.txt or rtf formats
variety of submission models	assignments can be submitted by students, tutors or administrative staff.
high-speed turnaround of submissions	assignments are checked automatically and 'originality reports' can be created within minutes
'originality reports'	each submitted assignment generates a report which identifies and 'hyperlinks' to any similar web-based resources found by the system
references & bibliographic information are flagged up	encourages proper referencing & citation
side-by-side comparison of student submissions with similar web-based resources	easy understanding and analysis of students' use of web-based resources
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