Promote Original Writing in the Digital Age
Today more than ever, educators and administrators struggle to promote more honest, thoughtful and legal use of information by students. With access to billions of source documents via the Web, students have the ability to cut-and-paste entire passages in seconds. This, combined with a growing emphasis on performance and assessment, has led to pervasive use of unoriginal content in student essays and research papers.
The Turnitin Originality Checking service is helping educators encourage original student writing and discourage plagiarism. A recent series of in-depth statistical studies reveals that when secondary schools, colleges and universities use Turnitin:
- Students become better writers and researchers. They create work with more original content and learn appropriate ways to use and cite source material.
- Teachers save time. With Turnitin’s easy-to-read Originality Reports, hours once wasted searching for evidence of suspected plagiarism can be spent providing feedback to produce better writers.
- Institutions improve their overall levels of learning. Continued use of Turnitin helps ensure the integrity of an institution and its educational mission — and the degrees it grants.
Reduce Unoriginal Content
Recent statistical analyses of tens of millions of papers submitted to Turnitin over the past decade spotlight how regular use of Turnitin helps reduce incidents of unoriginal student work over time.
- After two years of regular Turnitin use, institutions often show improvements of 20 percent or more, compared to their first full academic year of use. At individual institutions with widespread implementations of Turnitin, improvements of 30 to 35 percent are not uncommon.
- Institutions using Turnitin for four years show improvements of more than 35 percent. Many observed improvements of up to 70 percent.
- After six years or more, institutions see more than 45 percent improvement compared to Year 1.
Gain Better Results with Consistent Use
Year-to-year improvements are realized by a broad range of educational institutions, from secondary schools to two- and four-year colleges. All see progressive reductions in the incidents of unoriginal material with continued use of Turnitin. Based on historical performance statistics, it’s reasonable to expect continued improvements when using Turnitin for six years and beyond.
Develop Better Writers Every Semester, Every Year
Detailed month-by-month analyses of these unoriginality statistics show a sharp peak at the start of each academic term as students submit their first assignments. That peak rapidly diminishes by 40% or more as students become aware of their instructors’ expectations and adopt better writing practices. At the start of the next term, another peak occurs — but this time the peak is shorter and again drops off rapidly as the term unfolds. Each subsequent year shows overall reductions in the size of the peaks at the start of the school year.
Discover What Half a Million Educators Already Know
Instructors at every level who use Turnitin as a teaching tool say the service is helping get the results they want. An April 2009 survey of educators found that Turnitin helps instructors…
- Discuss academic integrity with students (81% of respondents)
- Teach techniques for paraphrasing, summarizing and quoting (74%)
- Teach students to cite sources properly (69%)
- Build better writing skills in students (67%).
Instructors also report that Turnitin saves them time, sparing them hours they’d otherwise put toward checking student works manually. This high level of satisfaction results in over 90 percent of institutions renewing their annual Turnitin subscription.
Get the WriteCycle™ Advantage
Turnitin is an essential part of the WriteCycle solution, designed to facilitate the delivery of quick and powerful feedback to students. In addition to Turnitin Originality Checking, WriteCycle incorporates Grademark®, a set of tools for paperless grading, and Peer Review, a collaboration space for facilitating student-to-student feedback. These three services help instructors encourage their students’ development as writers and communicators.
With WriteCycle, you can:
- Accelerate the learning process
- Involve students in their own development
- Free yourself from the burden of tracking papers
- Promote critical thinking
- Create a growing base of performance data and evidence to assist with future decision-making and progress reporting.
And you can achieve it all while growing an environment of academic integrity.
A Culture of Learning, Not Copying
At a time when digital information is perceived to be “free,” the Turnitin Originality Checking service helps educators promote an environment that emphasizes learning over copying.
- Half a million educators in over 7,300 high schools and colleges in 108 countries use Turnitin to check student works for proper citation or possible plagiarism.
- Every day, Turnitin searches hundreds of thousands of papers for text matches against a constantly-growing database of more than 85 million student papers, and billions of pages of web content — including billions of pages of commercial and archived content not available on the public web — such as books and subscription-based journals.
- Each Turnitin submission produces an easy-to-read Originality Report, which educators can use to assess unoriginal content and teach students about proper citation, and encourage academic integrity.
Using Turnitin helps educators teach students to think for themselves — especially when working with outside sources.
Make Turnitin a Part of Your Culture
To learn how you can use Turnitin or other WriteCycle services to build better writers and communicators, contact us today to make Turnitin an important part of the culture of learning at your institution.
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