Turnitin @ TUT Marius Pienaar (Instructional Designer)

• myTUTor course• Two routes• Students’ Papers• Similarity Report• Using Turnitin on myTUTor

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Overview

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http://mytutor.tut.ac.za

Documentation on Turnitin is available in the TII: Turnitin TII: Turnitin course

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Using the Turnitin website

Two routes

Manually•Set up a class•Enrol students•Personal use

You can also access your assignments on the Turnitin website after you have created it in myTUTor

Using Turnitin in myTUTor

Setting up of class and enrolment of students done automaticallyNo admin

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Students’ PapersTips

With today’s technology at their fingertips (literally), students are knowingly and unknowingly cheating

Students need to be taught academic writing

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Types of plagiarism

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Plagiarism or not?

From: http://www.gcu.ac.uk/student/coursework/writing/plagiarism.html(Adapted from A Guide for Writing Research Papers Based on Modern Language Association (MLA) Documentation (Capital Community College), available at http://webster.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml)

Four students read the following text and used it in their papers in slightly different ways. Which would count as plagiarism, and which not? "Because women's wages often continue to reflect the fiction that men earn the family wage, single mothers rarely earn enough to support themselves and their children adequately. And because work is still organized around the assumption that mothers stay home with children, even though few mothers can afford to do so, child-care facilities in the United States remain woefully inadequate."

May, Elaine Tyler. 1997. Barren in the promised land: childless Americans and the pursuit of happiness. Harvard University Press.

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Plagiarism or not?

"Because women's wages often continue to reflect the fiction that men earn the family wage, single mothers rarely earn enough to support themselves and their children adequately. And because work is still organized around the assumption that mothers stay home with children, even though few mothers can afford to do so, child-care facilities in the United States remain woefully inadequate."

May, Elaine Tyler. 1997. Barren in the promised land: childless Americans and the pursuit of happiness. Harvard University Press.

Student A wrote:

Since women's wages often continue to reflect the mistaken notion that men are the main wage earners in the family, single mothers rarely make enough to support themselves and their children very well. Also, because work is still based on the assumption that mothers stay home with children, facilities for child care remain woefully inadequate in the United States.

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Plagiarism or not?

"Because women's wages often continue to reflect the fiction that men earn the family wage, single mothers rarely earn enough to support themselves and their children adequately. And because work is still organized around the assumption that mothers stay home with children, even though few mothers can afford to do so, child-care facilities in the United States remain woefully inadequate."

May, Elaine Tyler. 1997. Barren in the promised land: childless Americans and the pursuit of happiness. Harvard University Press.

Student B wrote:

By and large, our economy still operates on the mistaken notion that men are the main breadwinners in the family. Thus, women continue to earn lower wages than men. This means, in effect, that many single mothers cannot earn a decent living. Furthermore, adequate day care is not available in the USA because of the mistaken assumption that mothers remain at home with their children.

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Plagiarism or not?

"Because women's wages often continue to reflect the fiction that men earn the family wage, single mothers rarely earn enough to support themselves and their children adequately. And because work is still organized around the assumption that mothers stay home with children, even though few mothers can afford to do so, child-care facilities in the United States remain woefully inadequate."

May, Elaine Tyler. 1997. Barren in the promised land: childless Americans and the pursuit of happiness. Harvard University Press.

Student C wrote:

As Elaine Tyler May (1997, p.588) points out, 'women's wages often continue to reflect the fiction that men earn the family wage'. Thus many single mothers cannot support themselves and their children adequately. Furthermore, since work is based on the assumption that mothers stay home with children, facilities for day care in this country are still 'woefully inadequate.'

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Plagiarism or not?

"Because women's wages often continue to reflect the fiction that men earn the family wage, single mothers rarely earn enough to support themselves and their children adequately. And because work is still organized around the assumption that mothers stay home with children, even though few mothers can afford to do so, child-care facilities in the United States remain woefully inadequate."

May, Elaine Tyler. 1997. Barren in the promised land: childless Americans and the pursuit of happiness. Harvard University Press.

Student D wrote:

Women today still earn less than men — so much less that many single mothers and their children live near or below the poverty line. Elaine Tyler May (1997, p.588) argues that this situation stems in part from 'the fiction that men earn the family wage‘. May further suggests that the American workplace still operates on the assumption that mothers with children stay home to care for them.

Obvious mistakes/clues

•Inconsistent grammar•Inconsistent vocabulary•Language efficiency (‘big’ words)•American English:

• ‘center’ instead of ‘centre’• ‘behavior’ instead of ‘behaviour’, etc.

•Change in font type•Change in font size•Clear/Obvious cut and paste

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Troubleshooting:Document format.

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Paper Submission

If you delete an assignment, every submission in the assignment will also be deleted from your in-box. The assignment remains on the Turnitin database and will be used as reference material for future submissions made to Turnitin. Only TUT's account administrator can request a submission to be deleted from the Turnitin database permanently.

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Using Turnitin :: Similarity Report

No match

0 – 24 % match

25 – 49% match

50 – 74 % match

75 – 100% match

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Once you see the percentage icon, it means that the report has generated.

% indicates the overall similarity index of the paper, based on how much matching text was found (as a percentage of the total text in the submission).

Summary of the matching text found in a submitted paper. 

Turnitin does not determine whether a paper has or has not been plagiarized. 

Originality Report = a tool to help you locate potential sources of plagiarism, or text which may have been incorrectly cited. 

Therefore, only you can deem what is a "good" or "bad" score, as interpretation of the data can only be made by you.

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