Lecture
4: TurnItIn.com
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I have seen some D2L issues with regard to all
text on a given page loading properly. I suggest that you immediately use
your F5 key and refresh this page now, and each subsequent time you view it. |
IF THE WORDS ARE NOT
YOUR OWN, PUT THEM INSIDE QUOTATION MARKS.
As
a student in this course, it is critically important that you know about the
TurnItIn.com service, for all your work will be processed through TurnItIn.com.
Here is a quote from their website:
“Helps
Teachers and Students Find and Prevent Plagiarism. Turnitin
Originality Checking & Plagiarism Prevention . . . lets educators and their
students check written work for improper citation or misappropriated content. Turnitin helps detect potential plagiarism by comparing
student work against 3 massive, continuously updated databases of content.
Every Originality Report provides instructors with the opportunity to help
students learn about proper citation and safeguard their academic integrity.”
When
work is turned in to the D2L drop box, TurnItIn
software checks your work and generates an originality report that both you and
I can see. A few minutes after you upload you paper, go to the D2L dropbox and you will see an icon with a percentage next to
the file you uploaded. Click the colored part of the icon and you will see the
very same originality report that I see.
When
viewing the report, you will be able to see the part of your paper that match
materials on the Internet, or passages from scholarly articles you may have
engaged in your paper. It will help you to improve your skills with regard to
what needs to appear inside quotation marks. It will also help you to determine
whether you are doing a sufficient job with paraphrasing the words of others,
or if you are committing plagiarism.
Immediately
review sections 2.4 and 2.5 of your MLA Handbook, for in total they are only
four pages long, and studying them may well save you much grief, or at least a
paper that receives a severely compromised grade. You should also review
sections 2.7.1 and 2.8; they total about one page.
Academic
Integrity:
Please
review the Temple College Scholastic Integrity Policy in the handbook. It is my responsibility to ensure that
scholastic integrity is maintained in all my classes; therefore, please note
that no form of cheating or plagiarism is tolerated.
Cheating
is sometimes a problem because students think it is acceptable to share answers
and/or complete each other's homework.
Often, siblings, spouses, best friends take this class together. It is NOT acceptable to do another
person's assignment, whether a weekly assignment or a research paper. I may ask you to work in small discussion
groups, and while I encourage you to collaborate on discussion of assigned
readings, your homework answers should not appear too similar.
Of
course, using cheat notes on exams and sharing test information with others is
cheating! Please do not assume that I am
not reading your homework; some students have made that mistake in the past.
*Scholastic
Dishonestly, cheating of any kind, may result in any and/or all of the
following:
*See the complete
“Academic Integrity Policy” attachment.