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Account Request
Faculty
Basics
Student
Basics
Student
Rights
Turnitin.com
What
is Plagiarism?
Resources
Training
Presentation - Faculty
Training Presentation - Student
| "Most writers steal a good thing when they can,
and when 'tis safely got 'tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect 'em, Before they ever dream that we suspect 'em.."
- Bryan Waller Proctor |
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Faculty Basics
Getting
Started: The
first step is to fill out the online
Account
Request form to use
Turnitin @ MSUM. After receiving your department account ID and join
password from Turnitin @ MSUM, create your personal user profile. The create
a user profile is
located in the upper right corner
of the
Turnitin.com
web site. The new user wizard will open and walk you through the profile
creation process. The second step is to create a class(s) account. You
will need to distribute the class enrollment ID and password to your
students so they can join your class. The third step is to create an
assignment(s) for the class. You may want to create more than one
assignment category for a class (e.g. Research Paper Draft, Final Research
Paper).
Instructor
Quickstart:
Turnitin quickstarts provides step-by-step instructions for creating your user profile, classes,
and assignments and are available as a multimedia Flash
presentation or in PDF format. Link
to Turnitin.com Instructor Quickstart
(Flash
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PDF)
Instructor
User Guide: Download the Turnitin.com
Instructor
User Guide [PDF] that
provides clear instructions and illustrations for creating your user
profile, classes, and assignments.
Recommended
Language
for Course Syllabi:
| In this course, all
required assignments may be subject to submission for textual
similarity review through the Turnitin.com web site to the
instructor, who may then use the tool to check for originality of
students' work. All submitted papers will be included as source
documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the
purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. Use of the
Turnitin.com service is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use
posted on the Turnitin.com site. |
Why Students Plagiarize:
Extracted from "Plagiarism: A "How Not To"
Workshop by Brittney Goodman, Interim Director Livingston Lord Library
MSUM, March 2002.
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remember to log out when you have finished using Turnitin.com
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