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At CalPac, your teachers require that you submit major writing assignments to a website called Turnitin.com.
At Turnitin, a few things happen:
Essays are screened for originality.
Students can see where they have plagiarized, whether accidentally or intentionally.
Students can view or even listen to specific feedback and comments on their work from their instructors.
Above is an example of one student's submission as screened through Turnitin. See all that red highlighted material and the big "26%" in the top right-hand corner? Those things are not good. Here are the issues with this submission:
The student has copied and pasted, verbatim, chunks of material from Internet sources.
The student has not provided quotation marks for what she has stolen from this source, and even if she had, this is WAY too much material to quote. Remember, an essay should largely be your own ideas and writing, the "cake" in a cupcake; quoted material in an essay is like the sprinkles on top (used sparingly).
The student has not provided citations or given credit in any way to the source used to write this essay.
What happens if my essay has problems like the one above??
What happens if my essay has problems like the one above??
You're in luck! If you have used Turnitin to submit an essay and you see an originality report like the one above, it helps you to see the mistakes you have made! The good news is, once you see it, you can fix it! If this happens to you, contact your teacher and let him or her know that you now realize you have plagiarism problems in your essay and that you would like to resubmit the essay after fixing these problems.
We at CalPac want you to submit original work and Turnitin helps you to do that! Sometimes you just need to see where you have made citation or plagiarism errors in order to fix them!
We at CalPac want you to submit original work and Turnitin helps you to do that! Sometimes you just need to see where you have made citation or plagiarism errors in order to fix them!
Not sure how to sign up for a course at Turnitin?
Not sure how to sign up for a course at Turnitin?
Your teachers have that information. Just ask!
Once you have the Enrollment information you need to sign up for your courses over at Turnitin, you'll have everything you need to get set up.
This Turnitin Guide contains links for all things related to setting up an account or submitting as assignment to Turnitin.
So there you have it! So many tools and resources... all for you!
So there you have it! So many tools and resources... all for you!
Now, we hate to go there, but you should be aware of the hard reality should plagiarism occur. Click the button to navigate to the final page of our site: Our Plagiarism Policy.
Now, we hate to go there, but you should be aware of the hard reality should plagiarism occur. Click the button to navigate to the final page of our site: Our Plagiarism Policy.
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