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PLAGIARISM WORKSHOP
BİLKENT UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
18.10.2012
Academic Support Workshops
• To promote more effectively the Library’s electronic resources and databases to the academic community at Bilkent …
• And, to provide a forum for discussing pedagogical and research issues relating to these databases.
What is Plagiarism?
What does Turnitin do? How to Use Turnitin? Benefits of Turnitin
What does iThenticate do? How to use iThenticate? Benefits of iThenticate
AGENDA
Plagiarism is not a simple, “black and white” issue.
Identify and treat the causes of the disease as well
as diagnose and cure its symptoms.
To use another person’s or persons’ words, ideas, invention, etc., without appropriate reference, and claim it as your own work.
source
object
acknowledgement
intention
How Do Students Plagiarize?
• Copy verbatim from a printed source(s)
• Copy and paste from online source(s)
• Paraphrasing:– Re-order words without
reference– Paraphrase badly
• Idea plagiarism• Translated plagiarism
• Purchase an essay from another student
• Purchase a paper from an online “essay mill”Pre-writtenCustom-written
• Copy a friend’s essay
Why Do Students Plagiarize?
• Time Management:– Workload and deadlines.
• Grade Pressure:– Parental expectations.
• Ease/laziness:– Internet – No significant deterrent.
• Insufficient Knowledge:– of what plagiarism is …– of how to paraphrase …– of proper referencing.
• Lack of Enthusiasm: for the course/subject
matter for the instructor.
• Personal Attitude: “Everyone does it…”Plagiarism not see as
unreasonable behaviour.
Who: Which Students Plagiarize?
Is There a Plagiarist Profile?
• Gender?• Age and maturity?• Academic year?• Academic department• Academic ability
• Linguistic ability?• Educational background?• Extra-curricular activities?
Results from Bilkent Survey
1. Which of the following would you describe as plagiarism?
Results from Bilkent Survey
2. Have your students ever plagiarized? / In your opinion,
have you ever knowingly plagiarized at Bilkent?
Results from Bilkent Survey
3. If you have experienced plagiarism, how often does it occur / If you have plagiarized, how often do you plagiarize?
Results from Bilkent Survey
4. If you have experienced plagiarism, how did your students plagiarize / If you have plagiarized, have you every done any
of the following?
Results from Bilkent Survey
5. In your opinion, why did your students plagiarize / If you have plagiarized, why did you do so?
Bilkent University Library ApplicationsBilkent University Library Applications
allowing students to evaluate their classmates’ papers (PeerMark)
Turnitin helps instructors by...
searching web pages (current & archived), student papers, major electronic newspapers, magazines & scholarly journals, e-books etc.
comparing submitted papers with the Turnitin database (Originality Report)
showing the highest percentage matches (Similarity Index)
providing paperless assessment (GradeMark)
n Creating an Instructor User Profile
Setting up a Class
Creating a Student List
Submitting a Paper
Viewing a Report
How to Use Turnitin?
Creating an Instructor User Profile
For institutional account ID & join password, contact your faculty
librarian
Setting up a Class
We know, you are very busy...
Lots of
papers
to read!
Creating a Student List
e-mail format
The student list must contain first name, last name, e-mail address
Click
by using “optional settings”
Ways of Submitting a Paper
1- Create an Assignment and upload a paper to that Assignment,
2- Without creating an Assignment, you can submit an individual paper to a Class,
3- Students can upload their papers using enrollment ID & password.
Submitting a Paper
to submit a paper
Viewing a Report
Other Features of Turnitin
GradeMark contains several tools and types of mark that instructors can use when grading and assessing papers. These include :
• Comments • Inline comments • QuickMark symbols • Rubric scorecards • General comments
GradeMark (Paperless Grading)
by double click you can add comments
You can take your quick mark
Description appears bottom
You can highlight the sentences
Instructors can create and manage PeerMark assignments that allow students:
to read to review to evaluate
PeerMark (Peer Reviewing)
one or many papers submitted by their classmates.
Benefits of Turnitin
Deters plagiarism before it happens.
Saves time in the investigation of the originality of student work.
Allows for efficient citation verification.
Provides documentation of any alleged plagiarism.
Provides resources to assist in teaching research and writing skills, including proper citation.
Do you need help?
OR...Contact
your faculty
librarian!
QUESTIONS FOR
TURNITIN
Bilkent University Library ApplicationsBilkent University Library Applications
What is iThenticate?
Through partnerships with leading scholarly publishers, aggregators and government bodies, iThenticate is the world's largest comparison database of scholarly and professional content.
• 24+ billion current and archived web pages
• 122+ million content items comprised of:
• 90+ million published works from journals, periodicals, magazines, encyclopedias, abstracts
• 32+ million scholarly articles, books and conference proceedings from 70,000+ scientific, technical and medical publications
Coverage is...
Benefits for doctoral & masters students
You need to work hard!
Are you
ready for
your jury?
Don’t
worry!
Benefits for academics...
Whether you are working
collaboratively
oralone
yourwriting is original!
You need to be sure that...
by adding your work to the iThenticate
repository, you are protecting your
research from possible plagiarism
by others in the future.
Future Plagiarism Prevention
How to access to iThenticate?
Interface
Managing folders
Click Create button
How to submit a document?
To share the report with the other faculty members
in your faculty
Getting a report
Mode1. Similarity reportMode2. Content trackingMode3. Summary reportMode4. Largest matches
Sharing a report
Click update sharing button
Shared person’s account
Folder preferences
QUESTIONS FOR
iTHENTICATE
Good luck!