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.
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.
Avoiding Plagiarism
The simplest way to avoid plagiarizing
is to properly cite all sources you use in the research
process. This means getting in the habit of keeping track
of all of the sources you consult from the beginning of
the research project to the very end. Start creating a
bibliography at the beginning and add to it as you progress.
Be sure to cite each quotation as you use it in a paper.
If you choose to paraphrase an idea or quotation, you must
also cite the source. Please see the Citation
Guides page for more details about citing sources.
Dominican University Academic Integrity
Policy
From page 29 of the 2006-2008 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."
Definitions of Plagiarism, Cheating and Academic Dishonesty
"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."
Last update:
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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