Turnitin is the leading originality checking and plagiarism prevention service used by millions of students and faculty, and thousands of institutions worldwide. Turnitin encourages best practices for using and citing other people’s written material.
“a series of algorithms to turn textual information into a ‘digital fingerprint’ that can identify matching patterns, including those from texts substantially altered by paraphrasing or word substitution.”
matched against:
- billions of web pages
- pdf files
- paper mill essays
- increasing number of articles and books from online subscription databases
- growing archive of previously submitted student papers
It then produces an “originality report”.
It will highlight any ‘suspect passages’ and lists links to web sites or contact information for previously submitted papers, from which content appears to have been taken.
