Turnitin.com

"Turnitin, a service of iParadigms, LLC, is the leading originality checking and plagiarism prevention service used by millions of students and faculty, and thousands of institutions in more than 100 countries. Turnitin Originality Checking, along with GradeMark and Peer Review, are the core components of WriteCycle, an award-winning, web-based solution to support instruction in the writing process. Turnitin is a registered trademark, and GradeMark and WriteCycle are trademarks of iParadigms, LLC." [5]

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• Description
[|Turnitin.com] is a Web-based tool for teachers to collect and review student papers for plagiarism, and so much more. Its unique [|WriteCycle™] is three fold in nature; Originality checking, GradeMark® and peer review. These three services combine with students' multiple revisions and feedback from both teachers and peers to enhance the students' understanding of the writing process.
 * [[image:writecycle.jpg align="right" caption="WriteCycle"]] Originality checking allows the teacher to quickly check the students’ papers for plagiarism and improper citations against 12 billion web pages, 60 million student papers, 10,000 newspapers, countless library books and other scholarly articles. A printable report and side-by-side comparison are available for each paper. Students' papers that include a string of eight or more words matching documents in the programs database are flagged for further review by the teacher. Turnitin.com makes no accusation of plagiarism. Rather, it alerts teachers to possible infractions.
 * GradeMark® provides students with real-time feedback. Teachers are able to access and grade student papers when they are submitted. Not only does this service give immediate feedback, but it also save trees through paperless grading, standardizes grading marks, provides customizable grading rubrics, and links to many LMS and CMS grading systems. Another feature allows the students' progresses to be tracked over time.
 * Peer Review allows students to learn through collaboration. Teachers can devise a standard revising rubric and have students comment on each other's work. The ability to have an anonymous reviewing process is even available protecting students from unnecessary embarrassment or bias.

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1996 - University of California, Berkeley students developed plagiarism detection software to detect "recycling" papers in their undergraduate program. Spurred on by fellow classmates the group formed a company called IParadigms, LLC with the help of teachers’, mathematicians, and computer scientists. The world’s first Internet-based plagiarism detection service, plagiarism.org, was born. ======

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1998 - As plagiarism.org gained media attention the service continued to evolve. Now turnitin.com, the site quickly became more than just a “originality checker” and “plagiarism prevention site” but a service that aims to be “a instructional tool that will increase student engagement in the writing process, and help them better learn to write, think and reason” [3] ======

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2005 - Many cases where students refuse to submit assignments to turnitin.com began to surface in the media. Students claim Turnitin.com violates students’ privacy and copyright of those required to use its service by archiving submitted papers and using them for profit as the site checks new submitted papers against them. [1] ======

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2006 - Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Stanford all declined to use turnitin.com. Many foreign schools follow suit with concern that students work should not be included without their permission on iParadigms, LLC, database. [4] ======

Turnitin.com offers students ways to improve composition. Teachers can opt for students to complete interactive exercises where students type in answers and receive feedback. Students are granted access to an online manual that covers grammar, punctuation, style, usage, and other writing techniques. ==== Students can also collaborate by editing their peers' work anonymously. This provides enhanced course content through multiple deliveries of material and opportunity for students to teach others. Editing peers' work provides real life examples of common mistakes made by students and practice editing those errors. ====

• Practical Applications
Turnitin.com is easily integrated into many LMS or CMS programs. Streamlining the integration of the product with the applications already in place in many technology-rich environments makes incorporating use of Turnitin.com a snap. Teachers will not have to spend the already limited time available in their day copying grades from one place to another. By integrating WriteCycle® in the class, educators can give students' immediate feedback they need to successfully improve their writing skills. Many learning theories report that the delay between student performance (stimulus) and the feedback (response) can account for a portion of the learning curve. When a student receives consistent and immediate feedback, there is a greater chance that the student will grasp the material. The core to turnitin.com is proper citation and plagiarism prevention. Students are able to submit their assignments in the application before a final submission to the teacher, allowing students to learn from mistakes before being punished for them. The goal is to help students understand the importance of proper citation, not to act as "G Men" who are out to get students.

• Demonstrations
GradeMark® Demo media type="custom" key="4398437" Turnitin.com Originality Reporting Demo media type="custom" key="4398439"

• References [1][] Retrieved September 17, 2009 [2][] Retrieved September 17, 2009 Copyright © 2009 iParadigms LLC [3][] Retrieved September 17, 2009 Copyright © 2009 iParadigms LLC [4][] Retrieved September 17, 2009 [5]Turnitin.com press kit received via personal correspondence with Katie Povejsil, VP of Marketing, September 21, 2009

• External Links [] [] [] [|http://www.ithenticate.com/http://vimeo.com/]

**Author and Legal** //Chris Daniels is currently enrolled in the Educational Technology MEd Program at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. This Project is an assignment Dr. Ho. The author is in no way affiliated with iParadigms, LLC. turnitin.com is a registered trademark, GradeMark and WriteCycle are trademarks of iParadims, LLC. Images and trademarks used with permission.//