English 120 – Rosichan
Avoiding Plagiarism Using Turnitin.com
English 120 #68809 – Fall 2016
The whole class will be enrolling in Turnitin.com where you can check your papers forplagiarism as well as find information on how to cite correctly. After the due date has passed, papers may no longer be submitted.
Step 1: To enroll, go to
Step 2: If you are new to Turnitin, click on the link at the top right “Create Account,” and skipdown to Step 3.
If you enrolled in Turnitin.com in the past, click “Log In” at the top right of the screen, and useyour previous login info (your email address and password). Then click on “Enroll in a class,”and follow the steps below to enroll in my class.
Step 3: You’ll need to enter the class id # which is: 13132534
Step 4: Next you’ll need to enter the class password which is: Hamburger
Step 5: If you are a new user, after you’ve signed in for the first time, you will be prompted tochange the password and provide a security question (in the event you forget your password).Write your new password down and keep it somewhere safe. Note: If you lose or forget yourpassword and are unable to answer the security question, you will need to contact me, so I canreset your password.
Some Helpful Resources:
Take a look at the “What Is Plagiarism” tab (which takes you to foruseful information about different kinds of plagiarism and how to avoid it.
Also check out the “Citation Help” tab for information about how to cite different kindsof sources.
How to Submit a Paper to Turnitin.com:
To submit a paper using single file upload (this is the preferred method), please do thefollowing:
1. Log into your account.
2. Click on the title of the class you wish to submit to.
3. Click on the blue “Submit” button for the assignment you wish to submit to. If there is a grey “Submit” button, submissions are not allowed for this assignment. Please check the assignment start and due dates and the assignment info icon*.
4. From the "Submit" heading at the top of the page, select the “Single File Upload” option.
If “Cut & Paste Upload” is showing, click on the arrow to select “Single File Upload.”
5. Make sure the file you are uploading is one that is accepted by Turnitin. Turnitincurrently accepts the following file types for upload into an assignment:
Microsoft Word™ (DOC and DOCX)
Corel WordPerfect®
HTML
Adobe PostScript®
Plain text (TXT)
Rich Text Format (RTF)
Portable Document Format (PDF)
Microsoft PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX, and PPS)
Hangul (HWP)
6. Enter the title of your paper in the “Submission Title” field.
7. Select an upload option.
“Choose from this computer” - Browse to a file saved on the computer. Select thefile and then click “Open.”
“Choose from dropbox” - Browse to a file saved to your Dropbox.com accountand then click “Choose.”
“Choose from Google Drive™” - Browse to a Document file from your GoogleDrive account and then click “Select.” (You may need to click “Accept” beforeconnecting).
8. Click the "Upload" button at the bottom.
9. STOP, and WAIT for the next page to appear.
10. Click “Confirm” to confirm your submission.
Important: After your paper is successfully submitted, your digital receipt will be displayed on
screen. The digital receipt has a Submission ID number, which is confirmation that Turnitin has
received your paper. If you do not see a digital receipt with a Submission ID number, then your
paper was not successfully received by Turnitin. The digital receipt is also emailed to you as
well.
*The “assignment info” button is located under the “info” column. Clicking on this icon will
show you additional assignment information:
Additional assignment instructions
Whether late papers are allowed
Whether resubmissions are allowed
Please contact the instructor if you have any additional questions about the assignment.
While it is recommended that students upload papers by single file upload whenever possible,nevertheless, you may choose to submit by cut and paste upload. To submit a document by cutand paste upload, please do the following:
1. Log into your account.
2. Click on the class you wish to submit to.
3. Click on the blue “Submit” button for the assignment you wish to submit to. If there is a grey“Submit” button, submissions are not allowed for this assignment. Please check theassignment start and due dates and the assignment info icon*.
4. Toward the top of the submission screen, click on the “Submit” pull-down menu and select“cut & paste upload”. Note: the default submission method is by "Single File Upload" whichyou are changing to “cut & paste upload.”
5. Fill in the relevant fields for the submission (eg. name and title).
6. Copy and paste the document you would like to submit in the large “cut & paste your paper:”field. It is not recommended that you type your document directly in the text field.
7. Click “Upload.”
Note: Submitting a document by “cut & paste” method will only accept basic text. Fonts,formatting, pictures, multimedia, and anything else which is not “basic text” will be lost.
Important: Once you have uploaded the paper, you should print out or save the digital receipt,which is displayed automatically on your screen after you submit your paper. The receipt is alsoe-mailed to you. Please check your e-mail, including your junk, bulk or deleted file (it issometimes filtered as spam) for the digital receipt email.
*The “assignment info” button is located under the “info” column. Clicking on this icon willshow you additional assignment information:
Additional assignment instructions
Whether late papers are allowed
Whether resubmissions are allowed.
Viewing Submitted Files:
After a submission has been completed it will be immediately available to view from the class
portfolio page for the student. Every paper that has been submitted can be viewed by clicking on
the “View” button next to the assignment.
After submitting your paper, you may access the Originality Report by following these steps:
1. Sign into your account.
2. Click on the title of your class
3. Under the “Similarity” header, click on the percentage or the color coded box to view theOriginality Report
4. The Originality Report will open in a new window.
Note: If the icon is a grey box with dashes or if you see the word “processing,” please allowadditional time for the report to be generated. Resubmitted papers can take 24 hours to generatea new Originality Report.
How to use and interpret the percentage as well as the report:
Similarity refers to anything in your paper that matches material found in another source,including quotations. (Quotations should come up as similar.)
You want to see an Originality Report (with quotations included) that is green and 20% or under.Blue is 0%, but if you’re quoting, and you should be, there should be some similarities. If areport is in the yellow, plagiarism is more likely, and if a report is red, there is a clear danger ofplagiarism. However, it is possible for a paper to have a low percentage of similarity and stillhave plagiarized. I do check what matches, not just the percentage.
Important: Remember whether you paraphrase/summarize or quote material from a source,what comes from the source and the source itself need to be clearly and correctly identified.Also, everything in a quotation should match the original exactly (except what you changecorrectly using ellipsis or brackets).
You can find out if your similarity percentage is based on quotation usage by checking the filtericon at the bottom toward the right (looks like an hour glass) to exclude quotations (or the workscited if there is one) and see how that affects the percentage.
If the percentage is high due to your use of quotations, you can decrease the similaritypercentage by removing or shortening quotations, but this is just one way to decrease thepercentage; if the quotations are relevant, consider, instead, adding more of your owninterpretation/analysis, which also helps decrease the percentage as it’s based on the proportionof original and unoriginal words in the paper.
In addition, you can use the info icon (an i) at the bottom left to check word count and otherinformation about the paper. Minimum word lengths of essays are reached with your originalwords. Quotations should be in addition.