What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is one of the tools used by the University of Tasmania to help staff and students manage issues related to academic integrity.
Turnitin provides a text matching system, which compares a submitted assignment with text located in its databases of internet pages, published works, and submitted papers. It produces a report, using colour to highlight matched text and giving information about matches. Turnitin does not differentiate between correctly acknowledged text and unacknowledged copying. Therefore, Turnitin cannot identify plagiarism, but only highlight where care may need to be taken to correctly acknowledge the work of others.
It is extremely unusual for Turnitin not to detect some matching text in an assignment. Usually sections of the reference list will match with other documents, as will commonly used phrases. Direct quotes will be identified as matching text by Turnitin, if they are contained within a document in Turnitin’s databases. Turnitin's databases do not contain all written works, therefore, there is no guarantee that text is original, even if Turnitin does not detect a match with another author's work.
Submitted assignments are usually added to Turnitin's database of submitted works.
Turnitin information for downloading:
Student Turnitin originality report service
All students can now submit their work to Turnitin, independent of the assessment requirements of their units.
The Student Turnitin originality report service is a resource to assist students develop their skills in appropriately acknowledging the work of others in their written work.
Warning: Your completed assessment work must be submitted to your unit's MyLO site. There is no connection between this originality report service and the assessment of your units.
The service can be accessed from your list of MyLO units on your MyLO home page, or directly, with authentication, to the 2008 - Student Turnitin originality report service.
This service compares work submitted against two (2) of Turnitin's three (3) databases. It does not compare work against Turnitin's database of student papers and therefore does not identify instances of collusion or autoplagiarism. The amount of a work highlighted by this service is likely to be less than that highlighted by your Unit's Turnitin assignment, which will compare your work with all three (3) Turnitin databases.
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For further information and resources visit Turnitin's training information
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