2. 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.
3. AGENDA
What is Plagiarism?
W hat does T urnitin do?
H to Use T
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Benefits of Turnitin
W hat does iT henticate do?
H to use iT
ow henticate?
Benefits of iThenticate
4. 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.
5. To use another person’s or persons’ source
words, ideas, invention, etc., object
without appropriate reference, acknowledgement
and claim it as your own work. intention
6. How Do Students Plagiarize?
• Copy verbatim from a • Purchase an essay from
printed source(s) another student
• Copy and paste from
online source(s) • Purchase a paper from
• Paraphrasing: an online “essay mill”
– Re-order words without Pre-written
reference Custom-written
– Paraphrase badly
• Idea plagiarism • Copy a friend’s essay
• Translated plagiarism
7. Why Do Students Plagiarize?
• Time Management: • Lack of Enthusiasm:
– Workload and deadlines. for the course/subject
• Grade Pressure: matter
for the instructor.
– Parental expectations.
• Personal Attitude:
• Ease/laziness:
“Everyone does it…”
– Internet
Plagiarism not see as
– No significant deterrent. unreasonable
• Insufficient Knowledge: behaviour.
– of what plagiarism is …
– of how to paraphrase …
– of proper referencing.
9. Is There a Plagiarist Profile?
• Gender? • Linguistic ability?
• Age and maturity? • Educational
• Academic year? background?
• Academic department • Extra-curricular
• Academic ability activities?
10. Results from Bilkent Survey
1. Which of the following would you describe as plagiarism?
11. Results from Bilkent Survey
2. Have your students ever plagiarized? / In your opinion,
have you ever knowingly plagiarized at Bilkent?
12. Results from Bilkent Survey
3. If you have experienced plagiarism, how often does it
occur / If you have plagiarized, how often do you plagiarize?
13. 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?
14. Results from Bilkent Survey
5. In your opinion, why did your students plagiarize / If you
have plagiarized, why did you do so?
17. Turnitin helps instructors by...
allowing students to evaluate their
providing the papers (PeerMark)&
classmates’ submittedpercentage
showing paperless assessment
comparing highest (current
searching web pages papers with
matches (Similaritypapers, major
archived), student Index)
(GradeMark) database (Originality
the Turnitin
electronic newspapers, magazines
Report)
& scholarly journals, e-books etc.
18. How to Use Turnitin?
n
Creating an Instructor User Profile
Setting up a Class
Creating a Student List
Submitting a Paper
Viewing a Report
40. 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.
57. GradeMark (Paperless Grading)
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
59. You can take your
quick mark
Description
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You can highlight
the sentences
60.
61. PeerMark (Peer Reviewing)
Instructors can create and manage PeerMark
assignments that allow students:
to read
to review
to evaluate
one or many papers
submitted by their classmates.
62.
63. 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.
64. Do you need help?
OR...
Contact
your
faculty
librarian!
68. 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.
69. Coverage is...
• 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
70. Benefits for doctoral & masters students
Are you
You
Don’t
need
ready for
to
worry!
your jury?
work
hard!
72. You need to be sure that...
your
writing
is
original!
73. Future Plagiarism Prevention
by
adding your work
to the iThenticate
repository, you are
protecting your
research from possible
plagiarism by others in
