This document discusses plagiarism detection and management using Turnitin. It explains that Turnitin is a plagiarism detection tool that compares submitted papers against its database to generate originality reports showing text matches. The document outlines how to use Turnitin, including creating classes and assignments, uploading papers, and viewing originality reports. Benefits of Turnitin include deterring plagiarism, saving time in investigations, and providing documentation.

1. PLAGIARISM DETECTION & MANAGEMENT
USING TURNITIN
Presented by: Dr. Kamran Ishfaq

2. Contents
• Introduction of turnitin
• Creating class/new assignment
• Uploading the research paper/Thesis for
plagiarism check
• Generating originality report
• Reading and interpreting the originality report
• Identifying and managing plagiarism using
tunitin

3. 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

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’
words, ideas, invention, etc.,
without appropriate reference,
and claim it as your own work.
source
object
acknowledgement
intention

6. 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-written
Custom-written
• Copy a friend’s essay

7. 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.

8. Results from Bilkent Survey
1. Which of the following would you describe as plagiarism?

9. Common Reasons for Plagiarism
It’s okay if
I don’t get caught!
I was too busy to
write that paper!
(Job, big game, too much homework!)
My teachers
expect
too much!
I’ve got to get
into
??? U.!
My parents
expect “A”s!
This assignment
was BORING!
Everyone does it!
Poor
Communication
skills

10. 10
Types of Plagiarism
• Intentional
– Copying a friend’s work
– Buying or borrowing papers
– Cutting and pasting blocks of text from electronic
sources without documenting
– Media “borrowing "without documentation
– Web publishing without permissions of creators
• Unintentional
– Careless paraphrasing
– Poor documentation
– Quoting excessively
– Failure to use your own “voice

11. Avoiding Plagiarism: Quoting
Quotations are the exact words of an author, copied
directly from a source, word for word. Quotations must
be cited!
Use quotations when:
• You want to add the power of an author’s words to support
your argument
• You want to disagree with an author’s argument
• You want to highlight particularly eloquent or powerful
phrases or passages
• You are comparing and contrasting specific points of view
• You want to note the important research that precedes
your own

12. Avoiding Plagiarism: Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing means rephrasing the words of an author,
putting his/her thoughts in your own words.
When you paraphrase, you rework the source’s ideas,
words, phrases, and sentence structures with your own.
Like quotations, paraphrased material must be followed
with in-text documentation and cited on your Works-Cited
page.
Paraphrase when:
• You plan to use information on your note cards and wish to
avoid plagiarizing
• You want to avoid overusing quotations
• You want to use your own voice to present information

13. Avoiding Plagiarism: Summarizing
• Summarizing involves putting the main idea(s) of
one or several writers into your own words,
including only the main point(s).
• Summaries are significantly shorter than the
original and take a broad overview of the source
material. Again, it is necessary to attribute
summarized ideas to their original sources.
Summarize when:
• You want to establish background or offer an overview of a topic
• You want to describe knowledge (from several sources) about a
topic
• You want to determine the main ideas of a single source

14. Bilkent University Library ApplicationsBilkent University Library Applications

15. 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)

16. n
 Creating an Instructor User Profile
 Setting up a Class
 Creating a Student List
 Submitting a Paper
 Viewing a Report
How to Use Turnitin?

18. 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.

22. 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.

23. QUESTIONS
FOR
TURNITIN

24. your
writing
is
original!
You need to be sure that...

25. by
adding your work
to the iThenticate
repository, you are
protecting your
research from possible
plagiarism by others in
Future Plagiarism Prevention