Turnitin

Introduction

0:07 hello and welcome to this video looking

0:10 at the Turnitin originality report

0:12 Turnitin is a specialized search engine

0:15 and data matching tool that is used by

0:17 many schools and universities to detect

0:19 plagiarism or copying by matching blocks

0:21 of text to previously published

0:23 materials plagiarism is a serious

0:26 offense and is treated by the University

0:28 of Portsmouth as such however it is part

0:30 of this staffs responsibility to educate

0:32 students in good practices Turnitin can

0:36 help with this and indeed its primary

0:37 use in the university is to help you

0:39 develop good practice incorrectly using

0:42 citations quotations and references in

0:45 order to take full advantage of Turnitin

0:47 you need to understand what the

0:49 originality report is telling you and

0:51 what the similarity index indicates once

Understanding the Originality Report

0:54 you have logged into Moodle go to the

0:55 unit where you submitted the assignment

0:56 and go to the Dropbox where you handed

0:58 the work in once inside it will be

1:01 broken down into the parts you need to

1:03 submit and you'll be able to click on

1:05 the similarity score once you've clicked

1:08 the percentage it will load up the

1:10 Turnitin document viewer you will see in

1:12 the right-hand menu a blue section and a

1:14 red section the number in the red

1:17 section is your originality score in

1:19 this case it is 34% this is the amount

Understanding the Match Overview

1:22 of your work that overlaps with other

1:24 work that has been submitted to Turnitin

1:26 or created and can be found online it is

1:29 broken down into coloured chunks and

1:30 this shows you where the work overlaps

1:32 with other content you can also see this

1:35 in the match overview on the right-hand

1:37 side of the feedback studio interface so

1:40 the top match is at 6% and there are a

1:43 few at one or two percent if I scroll

1:45 through the document you can see there

1:47 are different sections highlighted in

1:49 multiple colors show me where they are

1:51 some work may be quoted and given a

1:54 citation if you click the filter button

1:56 you can choose to exclude quoted

1:58 materials as well as the bibliography or

2:01 references section by clicking on

2:03 exclude the bibliography it will exclude

2:05 anything under the referencing title in

2:07 the document this has now dropped the

2:11 percentage down to 32% you can also see

2:16 there are smaller matches of around one

2:17 and two percent some may be getting two

2:20 three and four percent

2:21 and these can also occur because of

2:23 common terms and phrases that used

2:25 within the subject you are writing about

2:27 by excluding maybe three or four percent

2:29 matches it will help to reduce your

2:31 similarity score and to do that click on

2:33 the filter section choose the percentage

2:35 you wish to exclude by typing in that

2:37 figure and when you've done this

2:38 remember to click apply changes at the

2:40 bottom and then it should exclude those

2:43 one and two percent and possibly three

2:45 and four percent matches an academic

2:47 will also be able to change his

2:49 percentage to fit their criteria of

2:50 plagiarism

2:51 you can still see there are matches and

2:53 this could be because of common terms

2:54 that are being picked up if you click on

2:57 the arrow you can see the whole section

2:59 of work and where it is being taken from

3:01 you can see there is an issue here that

3:03 the work is matching other work may be

3:05 slightly more than it should be if you

3:07 click on the full source view you will

3:09 see the full source text window open on

3:11 the right-hand side showing you where

3:13 all the areas that you're getting the

3:14 matches are from again you can see where

3:18 the match is coming from and if it looks

3:19 like this paragraph has been copied and

3:21 pasted in from an external source it is

3:23 not good academic practice you may want

3:26 to revisit this and change it into your

3:27 own words bearing in mind you should not

3:30 use quotation marks or citations around

3:32 large chunks of text as all you are then

3:34 doing is presenting other people's work

3:36 as your own which again is not good

3:38 academic practice you would need to take

3:41 the paragraph out using only a few

3:42 quotations and citations and rewriting

3:44 it in your own words looking at the all

3:47 sources tab you are able to see where a

3:49 match has been broken down how much is

3:51 copied from multiple sources this will

3:54 help you work out where it has been

3:56 taken from and how often it has been

3:57 used looking at the other large

4:00 percentage overlaps they look like they

4:02 have been directly copied from the

4:03 internet and possibly other sources

4:05 again clicking on the arrow you are able

4:08 to see where all of these materials have

4:09 come from it is a very long paragraph

4:12 that has been copied and pasted exactly

4:14 which you would then need to remove

4:16 rewrite and use appropriate quotations

4:18 and citations and of course and in the

4:21 correct references at the end of your

4:23 work by removing the two larger text

4:25 sections that have been copied the

4:27 percentage would be a much lower and

4:29 much more acceptable score a point of

4:32 note however is that it would not be

4:33 acceptable to put a

4:35 large chunk of text in quotation marks

4:36 and just give it a reference this is

4:39 taking the work of others and not

4:40 putting in much of your own work this

4:43 could result in you beginning a much

4:44 lower mark by the member of staff who is

4:46 grading your work another point to note

4:49 is there's no set figure in the

4:51 university regulations that constitutes

4:53 plagiarism the regulations simply state

4:56 a substantial amount and the

4:58 interpretation of this would be given by

5:00 the member of staff setting and then

5:02 marking the work if you have any doubt

5:05 you would need to check that with the

5:06 member of staff you also do not need to

5:09 get a score of 0% to avoid being accused

5:12 of plagiarism you will have small

5:14 fragments and phrases that will always

5:16 overlap for instance when using common

5:18 terminology if you ever unsure please do

5:21 again check with the member of staff who

5:23 is setting the work thank you very much

5:25 for watching this particular video