• Originality Checking


    Turnitin WriteCycle’s Originality Checking allows educators to check students’ work for improper citation or potential plagiarism by comparing it against continuously updated databases. Every Originality Report provides instructors with the opportunity to teach their students proper citation methods as well as to safeguard their students’ academic integrity.

    Features & Benefits

    • Encourages Proper Citation
    • Over 12 Billion Web Pages Crawled & Archived
    • Over 60 Million Student Papers
    • Over 10,000 Major Newspapers, Magazines & Scholarly Journals
    • Thousands Of Books Including Literary Classics
    • Printable Reports
    • Side-By-Side Comparison

    Academic Integrity

    “Turnitin plays an extremely important role in helping our students understand intellectual honesty… For our students, being able to see a highlighted line that is similar or exact to another document gives us that “teaching moment”…”
    - TRIO Training, University of Washington

    “We have used Turnitin in several courses now, and the experience has been positive. We find Turnitin to be a useful tool in detecting, and, more important, in preventing plagiarism by students. In addition, I have discovered that Turnitin is a very useful tool in course coordination. We have dozens of students who need to prepare and submit several written assignments during the course. Turnitin has enabled us to collect all the reports in one place, as well as to control whether the reports have been returned in time. We have also found Turnitin’s grading functionality useful.”

    - Professor Erkko Autio, Department of Management, HEC Lausanne, Switzerland

    “The real success of Turnitin UK is not in catching bad behaviour, but in demonstrating to students the nature of plagiarism, and encouraging them to become more aware of plagiarism and how to avoid it in their academic careers. We have found that the deterrent effect of Turnitin UK is both sizeable and tangible and that it is an excellent educational tool, as it has made students more aware of plagiarism and motivated them to actively avoid it. Furthermore, many students were interested in improving their writing skills and engaging in self-validation of their work, and found it stimulating to see the reports on their papers.”

    - Martin King, Educational Development Officer (Learning Technology), Royal Holloway, University of London