What is Turnitin?
Turnitin is a third-party service that matches text from student assignments against its extensive databases of current and archived internet content, student work previously have submitted to Turnitin, periodicals, journals, and publications. Turnitin produces a similarity report and a score (%) of matched text.
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Turnitin accepts a wide range of file types but can only create a similarity report if the file contains text. Files must also be under 100MB in size, or under 2MB if they only contain text. They must contain at least 20 words and be under 800 pages long. To check which file types are currently accepted, please refer to Turnitin’s File requirements page. |
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Using Turnitin to develop students' academic writing
The LSE policy on the use of Turnitin requires all “Departments (in which students engage with essay-based assessments) to offer their students the opportunity to use Turnitin to help them develop their writing, referencing, paraphrasing and citation skills”.
Allowing students to access and use their similarity reports provides them with an opportunity to identify where their use of citations, referencing and paraphrasing requires development. To learn how to allow students access to their similarity reports, please see our guide How to enable Turnitin similarity reports within Moodle assignment activities. How frequently you allow students access to similarity reports is decided at departmental level, as set out in the LSE policy on the use of Turnitin.
Students will only be able to make effective use of this access if they have received appropriate training in citing and referencing, and using and interpreting a similarity report. Both are covered by LSE LIFE’s academic integrity unit [insert link when available].
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