{"id":4509,"date":"2022-12-01T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=4509"},"modified":"2022-12-01T16:04:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T15:04:52","slug":"what-is-turnitin-and-what-does-it-do","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/article\/what-is-turnitin-and-what-does-it-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Turnitin and what does it do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Turnitin\u00a0is 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\u2019s written material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/What-is-turnitin-2.jpg\" alt=\"A diagram showing how Turnitin checks a students essay against internet resources, journal articles and the submission repsository.\" class=\"wp-image-4506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/What-is-turnitin-2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/What-is-turnitin-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/What-is-turnitin-2-50x38.jpg 50w, https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/What-is-turnitin-2-60x45.jpg 60w, https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/What-is-turnitin-2-100x75.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201ca series of algorithms to turn textual information into a \u2018digital fingerprint\u2019 that can identify matching patterns, including those from texts substantially altered by paraphrasing or word substitution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>matched against:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&nbsp; billions of web pages<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp; pdf files<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp; paper mill essays<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp; increasing number of articles and books from online subscription databases<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&nbsp; growing archive of previously submitted student papers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It then produces an &#8220;originality report\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will highlight any &#8216;suspect passages&#8217; and lists links to web sites or contact information for previously submitted papers, from which content appears to have been taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turnitin\u00a0is the leading originality checking and plagiarism prevention service used by millions of students and faculty, and thousands of institutions worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[190],"ht-kb-tag":[252],"class_list":["post-4509","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-turnitin","ht_kb_tag-turnitin"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/4509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/4509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4510,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/4509\/revisions\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digi-ed.uk\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}