Turnitin Manual - for professors -

EWHA Womans University Library

Updated 2015. 3

Turnitin Guideline

Turnitin : Plagiarism prevention program

- Check plagiarism of a thesis or paper to prevent the problem before

submission

Main function

– Compare plagiarism among websites, newspapers, journals, magazine,

articles, papers, books, other publication types

– View original paper and comparing paper in one screen

– Submit diverse format of paper such as HWP, PDF, DOC, HTML, TXT,

Word PerFect, etc.

– Check percentage of conformity degree between original paper and

comparing paper

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Create Turnitin Account 3

Turnitin ID : School E-mail Password : temporary password → change after login

• If you don’t get e-mail, check spam mailbox and

search with “Turnitin No Reply” as sender name

1. Register as user and check ID, PW after getting e-mail

2. If ID cannot be created, ask librarian to make one Central library, Reference Room (# 3647, yousunko@ewha.ac.kr)

It is required to create ID/PW with account manager.

Turnitin Login 4

1. URL : http://www.turnitin.com, http://www.turnitin.com/en_us 2. ID : Email (xxxx@ewha.ac.kr), Password : password you created

Turnitin – Add and manage Class 5

1. Click Add Class button to make a class ID (To upload a paper, at least one class and Assignment should be made. Class is a higher level of folder.) Ex. Class (higher level of folder) : “Ewha’s thesis check” , Assignment (lower level of folder) : thesis in Korean, Dissertation in English

Change Language Confirm instructor

Turnitin Open Class 6

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1) Class Type: “Standard”

2) Class name: Class title (ex.＂Ewha’s thesis check")

3) Enrollment password : simple PW of 4~12 length (ex. “1234")

4) Subject area(s) : Select subject of paper (ex. “Others” if there is no proper subject)

5) Student level(s) : select student status : Graduate, Undergraduate

6) Class end date : set up between 6 month and 12 months (ex. Paper submission date)

7) Fill all the required fields and click Submit -> Click Continue to proceed

(Class ID: automatically created in Turnitin)

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2. Click Add assignment to create one

3. Select assignment type (at first, Paper Assignment is default.)

• Paper Assignment

: In Self Checking, select Paper Assignment and click “Next Step”

• Peer Mark Assignment

: Students review their peer’s papers based on free response questions

selected by an instructor

• Revision Assignment

: Students can submit new assignment in addition to original paper

• Reflection Assignment

: Students can write about what they learned from the writing process and

offer feedback on the assignment they worked on.

1. Click Class name to create assignment

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Turnitin Assignment 8

▶ Set up detail information of an assignment

1) Write Assignment title, Point value (Ex. Check paper_A, value = 0)

2) Set up Start date and Due date and Post date

(Due date, Post date as same date : ex. Apr 10, 2015)

*Due date and Post date set up prior to Class end date

3) Set up Optional settings * Without Optional settings, it is possible to submit directly

* Set up during process of assignment setting

Turnitin Assignment_Options 9

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1. To check originality of a report, choose “immediately (can overwrite reports until due date)

2. Submit papers to: To protect intellectual property right, save as standard folder (“no repository" means the paper will not be saved in DB. It is impossible to check duplication when uploading revised same paper.)

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1. In Sample text screen, click “View” * It is possible to add several assignments by purpose (ex. Check paper oversea, for institutes, check thesis/dissertation, etc.)

2. Click “Submit File” to upload paper

Turnitin Single File Upload

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1. File upload ① Submit: choose Single File Upload ② Author: Non-enrolled student ③ First name, Last name: Writer’s name ④ Submission title: Type in paper title ⑤ Upload: “Choose from this computer” and search file to

upload ⑥ Click “Upload"

2. Preview file and if it is correct, click “Confirm”

3. After submission, click “Go to assignment inbox” to check if the

paper is correctly submitted

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File capacity : 20MB, less than 400 pages (By file capacity, checking time will be differ)

Originality Check 12

1. After uploading document, click % icon and pen icon to create an document viewer icon. With the icon it is possible to view originality check report.

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1. Similar part is shown as highlight with number Click highlighted part to view source and contents

2. *percentage of matching vocabulary between original paper and other sources (Ex. 53 words matching based on 100 words)

3. Show the similar part and source in number and color

4. To view more sources click arrow

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Originality Check _ filtering

1. Click funnel icon ( ) , check originality again except citation and bibliographic information, except successive words and percentage

For Korean articles, font and sentence may not be

regarded as citation, please use “ “ to check

2. Click print icon ( ) to download file Download PDF of current view for printing

: Download the file in PDF and attach originality check result at the end of the paper. Print out to check plagiarism

Download PDF of digital receipt for printing : Print digitalized receipt

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Originality Check _ exclude sources 15

1. In All sources screen, click the upper right graph to view all source list

In professor account, it is possible to exclude

some sources

2. When you click ‘Exclude Sources’, on the left side of sources, check box is created.

3. Check sources to exclude and click “Exclude”

icon in the bottom → Exclude checked source

and re-check originality

4. To view excluded sources, click . It is possible to select individual or all excluded sources and to add sources to check originality.

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Originality Check_Text Only Report 16

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1. Click “Text Only Report” to view text report excluding graphs or images

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2. Document Viewer: Change to Document Viewer

3. - exclude quoted : check

originality excluding quotation

- exclude bibliography: check

originality excluding reference

- exclude small matches : submit

successive number of words

or % to check originality again

FAQ 17

Q. What is the standard % for plagiarism? A : If originality % is high, you can suspect plagiarism. However even the % is lower, if a part of a paper is exactly same as other person’s work, the paper is regarded as plagiarism work. Therefore, % is not the only standard to check plagiarism and you need to review the sentences and revise them. Turnitin is not a program to confirm plagiarism, but it checks originality by comparing with other sources. Thus, you should check originality by discussing with colleagues, or professors. Q. If Turnitin result confirms a paper as originality, is it okay? A : Any plagiarism checking program cannot compare all the papers in the world. Therefore, even author copies some part of a paper, the program may say it is not plagiarism paper. However, the volume of data is growing as time goes, and someday your paper may be defined as plagiarism paper. Therefore, before submission, you need to review your paper with your professor or colleagues for originality,

Q. If a paper has plagiarism with other academic institutions, can we check originality and view full text of comparing paper? A : If similarity is confirmed, it is possible to see % of originality but impossible to view full text. It is required to ask academic institution which has the paper to use full text. Q. My paper is submitted in Turnitin and it is also submitted in a publisher. Then is it considered as plagiarism? A : Editors in publishers use "iThenticate“. The compared data is different from Turnitin to iThenticate. And your paper will not be considered as plagiarism. Therefore, to protect intellectual property, it is important to save the paper in database. Also it is recommended to save the originality check result in PDF or HTML format in personal PC because sometime publishers require the evidence of submission to Turnitin.