Turnitin:Plagiarism Detection Software

by

Dr. Santosh GuptaAssistant Professor

Department of Library & Information Science

UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN, Jaipur

e-mail: santosh.guptaa@gmail.com

Mob.: 9040022440

Introduction about ‘Plagiarism’

▪ Plagiarism is an issue of research misconduct in academic and research activities.

Plagiarism check and avoidance have been of greater concern in academics,

publications, higher institutions, writers, etc.

▪ The word ‘plagiarize’ comes from the Latin word – “Plagiare” means to kidnap

(Oxford English Dictionary).

▪ Use of ‘Plagiarius’ word into English was introduced by Dramatist ‘Ben Jonson’ in

1601 in England.

▪ Plagiarism is an unethical act or practice of presenting that another person’s work is

your own.

▪ Plagiarism is copying words/ texts from any source of information without proper

citation. Stealing or borrowing content without mentioning or citing the source in a

research article is also a kind of plagiarism.

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Anti-Plagiarism Software

▪ There are many software in the market to check plagiarism.

Some of these are –

▪ Proprietary software- Urkund, Turnitin, iThenticate, etc.

▪ Free software- Viper, Plagiarism Checker X, DupliChecker, etc.

▪ Plagiarism checkers have numerous advantages for students and

research scholars.

▪ Choosing a reliable and effective plagiarism checker is vital to

ensure that your content is free from plagiarism.

▪ Turnitin the one of the excellent software among all other similar

software because of many reasons.

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Turnitin

▪ Turnitin is very powerful commercial and popular web-based software to

check plagiarism of all types of documents through large documents

repository. Turnitin is used by more than 30 million students at 15,000

institutions in 140 countries.

▪ Turnitin manage the process of submitting and tracking papers electronically,

providing better and faster feedback to students.

▪ It ensures Originality and Integrity of the work.

▪ Turnitin identifies 10 types of unoriginal works.

▪ It helps students as a formative learning tool around referencing .

▪ Ensure a level of equality and parity when checking the similarity of students’

work against the vast range of possible online sources.

▪ Turnitin provides similarity report on the basis of Text matching to prevent and

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Users in Turnitin

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Turnitin - History

Year Achievements

1998 Founded by Four University students as a peer review application.

2000 Turnitin.com launches, introduces plagiarism prevention service.

2002 Turnitin premieres online digital grading. 1 million submission in

Turnitin's paper .

2007 Turnitin partners with Crossref to develop the world’s largest scholarly

database. 16 Million registered Turnitin users. Turnitin database

reaches 100 Million submission.

2010 Turnitin merges originality checking, online grading, and peer review in

to a single service.

2014 26 million students and instructors using Turnitin globally.

2015 Turnitin surpasses 300 employees globally.

2017 Turnitin Partners with College Board to Power Official SAT Writing

Practice on Khan Academy.

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Similarity Score Colors Indicator

Blue: 0% matching text

Green: 1-24% matching text

Yellow: 25-49% matching text

Orange: 50-74% matching text

Red: 75-100% matching text

The color of the report icon indicates the similarity score of the paper, based

on the amount of matching or similar text that was uncovered. The percentage

range is 0% to 100%. The possible similarity ranges are:

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Similarity Colour Indicator

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Submission of Assignments

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Submission of Assignment

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Submission…Contd.

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Generation of Report

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Using Filter to include/ Exclude Sources

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Use of Filter/ Settings

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Use of Grammar Tool and Automatic Grading

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Result After Changes in Settings

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• Understand what plagiarism is? How to detect and avoid it.

• Avoid Cutting and pasting from the Internet .

• Avoid paraphrasing or learn smart paraphrasing.

• Use more pictures, make simple sentences in your own words.

• Give proper citation.

• Take help of your instructor/ Friends/ Guide.

• Be honest.

Conclusion

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH EVERYONE.