Plagiarism / Turnitin.com

Plagiarism Prevention and Turnitin.com

Dominican University subscribes to a plagiarism prevention and detection resource: Turnitin.com. Turnitin helps students properly cite quotations and ideas in their papers. Instructors and students may submit electronic copies of papers to Turnitin.com and receive an originality report. The report indicates how much of the paper is original and how much has been copied from other sources. It does differentiate between text that is properly quoted, and text that has been copied without quotation marks. Turnitin is used to check rough drafts of papers, and to grade final drafts.

Information for Instructors

Instructors may create a "class" in Turnitin and have all their students submit papers. For instructions on getting started, creating a class and having your students submit papers, please contact Caroline Sietmann at csietmann@dom.edu or 708-524-6884. If Caroline is not available, please call the reference desk at 708-524-6875.

Information for Students

If your instructor has created a "class" in Turnitin for you, please submit your paper through that class. Your instructor will help you with the submission process. If your instructor is not using Turnitin, you may submit a paper on your own. For instructions on getting started and submitting a paper, please contact Caroline Sietmann at csietmann@dom.edu or 708-524-6884. If Caroline is not available, please call the reference desk at 708-524-6875.

Avoiding Plagiarism

The simplest way to avoid plagiarizing is to keep track of the sources you use from the beginning of the research process to the very end. Create a bibliography of your sources and indicate which quotations and ideas come from which source. You can create a bibliography by printing, saving or emailing citations from databases. When it comes time to use quotations and ideas in your paper from your sources, you can easily refer to your bibliography. Be sure to cite each quotation and idea, even if it is paraphrased. For help with citation styles, please see the Citation Guides.

Dominican University Academic Integrity Policy

From page 29 of the 2008-2010 Academic Bulletin, Dominican University

"Students of the university must conduct themselves in accordance with the highest standards of academic honesty and integrity . Failure to maintain academic integrity will not be tolerated. The following definitions are provided for understanding and clarity."

"Student plagiarism is the deliberate presentation of the writing or thinking of another as the student's own. In written or oral work a student may make fair use of quotations, ideas, images, etc., that appear in others' work only if the student gives appropriate credit to the original authors, thinkers, owners or creators of that work. This includes material found on the Internet and in electronic databases.

Cheating entails the use of unauthorized or prohibited aids in accomplishing assigned academic tasks. Obtaining unauthorized help on examinations, using prohibited notes on closed-note examinations, and depending on others for the writing of essays or the creation of other assigned work are all forms of cheating.

Academic dishonesty may also include other acts intended to misrepresent the authorship of academic work or to undermine the integrity of the classroom or of grades assigned for academic work. Deliberate acts threatening the integrity of library materials or the smooth operation of laboratories are among possible acts of academic dishonesty."

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