TurnItIn Quick Guide: Home

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• Finding Sources for Your Assignments
• Citing Your Sources
• Full Text Access of Resources
• Library Technical Problems

TurnItIn is a software used for verifying academic integrity. Your instructors may ask you to submit assignments via TurnItIn, which will allow you to verify if you are missing citations prior to submission.

TurnItIn is now embedded within BrightSpace.

Please follow the link below to see the instructions from IT on how to use TurnItIn to submit your assignments, including how to view your Similarity Report(s), and resubmit if needful.

How to use a Similarity Score

The first time you receive a similarity score, don't worry too much about the number. Instead, pay attention to the specific sections which have been highlighted.

• Are there any changes which you could make which would make your paper even better? 
  • For instance, if it shows that there's a reference in your reference list that doesn't have a corresponding in-text citation, did you forget to make an in-text citation?
• Some highlighted sections may not require changing.
  • For instance, if you have included a famous quote, it may be highlighted because others have also quoted it. As long as you've cited the quote correctly, that's OK - you don't need to change it.

The similarity score becomes more useful if you resubmit your assignment after making changes. Has the similarity score decreased? 

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