Turnitin Giveaway

Turnitin IDs Giveaway

What's Turnitin?

Turnitin is a web-based plagiarism prevention system used by most universities in the UK. There are three main uses of Turnitin:

To act as a deterrent against plagiarism.
To provide reports which can help identify occurrences of plagiarism.
To provide students with a tool to identify and correct possible occurrences of plagiarism in their own work and improve their academic writing.

How does Turnitin Works.

A Turnitin assignment is set up by a lecturer, either through a university’s online learning environment or directly on Turnitin’s own website (www.turnitinuk.com). Students then access this assignment online and upload their work before the due date. Turnitin will then analyse the submitted work to identify text matches with other sources, usually completing this task within a few minutes. Staff can also view the work that has been submitted and there is also an option to mark the work online and include grades and comments which can be returned to the student once all papers have been marked.

For each piece of submitted work, Turnitin provides two things:

A similarity index indicates the percentage of the submitted paper that Turnitin has identified as being matched against other sources.
An originality report shows each of these matches in more detail, including the source(s) that Turnitin has found. These can be websites, books, journals and articles, or work that has previously been submitted through Turnitin