Turn-it-in: Plagiarism Prevention

Turnitin is a useful online tool for both students and educators to cut down on plagiarism. As it states on its’ webpage, turnitin.com is “recognized worldwide as the standard in online plagiarism prevention…Turnitin helps educators and students take full advantage of the internet's educational potential.”

Every paper that is submitted is returned to the student in the form of a customized Originality Report.  Results are based on exhaustive searches of billions of pages from both current and archived instances of the internet, millions of student papers previously submitted to Turnitin, and commercial databases of journal articles and periodicals. 

Any matches uncovered between submitted papers and source material is detailed in an intuitive and unambiguous format, allowing both students and educators to spend time addressing plagiarism's causes rather than searching for it.