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This document summarizes a workshop on plagiarism held at Bilkent University Library on October 18, 2012. The workshop covered definitions of plagiarism, how tools like Turnitin and iThenticate can help detect plagiarism, and how to use the features of Turnitin and iThenticate. Presentation topics included what constitutes plagiarism, why students plagiarize, how the software programs work, and the benefits of using Turnitin and iThenticate for instructors and students. Attendees learned how to set up accounts, classes, and paper submissions on the platforms and how to view originality reports and peer review assignments.
Turnitin Workshop
- 1. PLAGIARISM WORKSHOP BİLKENT UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 18.10.2012
- 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 ow urnitin? 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.
- 8. Who: Which Students Plagiarize?
- 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?
- 16. Bilkent University Library Applications
- 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
- 21. Creating an Instructor User Profile
- 22. For institutional account ID & join password, contact your faculty librarian
- 23. Setting up a Class
- 24. We know, you are very busy... Lots of papers to read!
- 29. e-mail format
- 31. The student list must contain first name, last name, e-mail address
- 34. Click
- 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.
- 42. to submit a paper
- 46. Viewing a Report
- 56. Other Features of Turnitin
- 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
- 58. by double click you can add comments
- 59. You can take your quick mark Description appears bottom You can highlight the sentences
- 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.
- 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!
- 65. QUESTIONS FOR TURNITIN
- 67. Bilkent University Library Applications
- 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!
- 71. Benefits for academics... Whether you areor working alone collaboratively
- 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
- 74. How to access to iThenticate?
- 75. Login Send e-mail: ithenticate@bilkent.edu.tr
- 76. Interface
- 77. Managing folders Click Create button
- 78. How to submit a document? To share the report with the other faculty members in your faculty
- 79. Getting a report Mode4. Largest tracking Mode2. Content matches Mode3. Summary report Mode1. Similarity
- 80. Sharing a report Click update sharing button
- 83. QUESTIONS FOR iTHENTICATE
- 84. Good luck!