LHSON STUDENT DIRECTIONS FOR USING TURNITIN

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1 Turnitin Directions for LHSON Student Plagiarism Prevention LHSON STUDENT DIRECTIONS FOR USING TURNITIN We will be using the Turnitin plagiarism prevention program as a tool to assist you with writing. Papers submitted to Turnitin are compared against millions of internet documents, an archived copy of the internet, local databases of submitted student papers, and a database of periodicals, journals, & publications. Any matching text that is found between your paper and documents in the Turnitin database is detailed in an Originality Report that you can view after you submit the paper. After reviewing the report, you can revise your paper until you have an acceptable similarity index percentage (24% or below) which will be discussed later in these directions. See the Turnitin website for tutorials and help. Overall Steps for Using Turnitin Here is a brief summary of the steps you take to use Turnitin: 1. Create a user profile once at Turnitin ( ) using your RegisNet address and develop a Turnitin password which you will use to sign in to Turnitin (See page 2 below for directions). 2. Sign in to Turnitin using your RegisNet address and Turnitin password at 3. Use class ID number and class enrollment password given to you by your course faculty to enroll in the class at Turnitin. Each class has its own unique class ID number and class enrollment password. You only enroll in the class once (See page 5 below for directions). You will submit your paper to a specific class area. 4. Submit your paper in the class area at Turnitin to have it checked for similarity with other documents in the Turnitin system (See page 5 below for directions). 5. Review the originality report at the Turnitin class site. (See page 11 below for directions). If similarity index percentage is 24% or below (green or blue), your paper is appropriate and you can download the originality report. 6. Revise paper in your word processor and resubmit to Turnitin if your similarity index percentage is above 24% (See page 12 below for resubmitting directions). 7. Download the final originality report and submit as directed by your course faculty (See page 12 below for directions).

2 Turnitin Directions for LHSON Student CREATING USER PROFILE and NEW STUDENT ACCOUNT IN TURNITIN 1. Go to 2. Click Create Account as shown below. 3. Under Create a User Profile click Student under Create a New Account

3 Turnitin Directions for LHSON Student In order to create your user profile and new Turnitin student account, you will need to enter the class ID number and the enrollment password given to you by your instructor (SEE SCREEN BELOW) in addition to the other information requested. You create a user profile and new Turnitin student account only once. 5. On this same page, you will set-up your own personal sign-in password. (See below) SCROLL down to see all the information on this webpage that you need to complete. Be CERTAIN to use only your RegisNET address in the box and write down the password you choose to create. (Your faculty will not be able to help you retrieve the password if you lose it or forget it.) THE ADDRESS AND PASSWORD IS WHAT YOU WILL USE TO SIGN IN TO TURNITIN EACH TIME YOU RETURN. To complete this page, read the agreement and click I agree create profile.

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5 Turnitin Directions for LHSON Student SUBMITTING PAPER TO TURNITIN 1. Using your RegisNet address and your personally developed Turnitin sign in password created in the previous steps, go to Turnitin at and sign in if you have not already done so. Skip step 2. If you have already enrolled in the class. Below is the screen that will show each time you sign-in to Turnitin. This is considered your homepage. 2. If you have not done so, you will need to enroll in the class in which you will be submitting the paper. Your course instructor will give you the class ID number and class enrollment password. You will need this information in order to enroll in the class. Click the enroll in a class tab at the top of your home page as shown below. You only enroll in a specific class once. a.

6 Turnitin Directions for LHSON Student b. Enter the class id and enrollment password c. Click submit to enroll in the class ADDITIONAL INFORMATION 3. Once you are enrolled in the class, click the class name link under the Regis University Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions heading. NOTE: You will be in the student mode.

7 Turnitin Directions for LHSON Student Click the Submit button next to the assignment that you want to submit as shown below. 5. Enter the paper name in the Submission Title box. This is a single file upload.

8 Turnitin Directions for LHSON Student Click Browse to find the paper you saved on your computer to submit 7. Once the paper file name is in the Browse box, click Submit as shown above. 8. On the next screen, scroll down and if the paper you want to submit is in the preview pane as shown below, click Submit. It will not appear in APA format in the preview pane. An will be sent to your Regis account from Turnitin letting you know that you have submitted an assignment to Turnitin.

9 Turnitin Directions for LHSON Student DIRECTIONS FOR REVIEWING ORIGINALITY REPORTS Originality Reports provide a summary of the matching text found in a submitted paper and the similarity index percentage. To get to the Originality Report, follow the directions below. 1. After you have submitted the paper for review in Turnitin, click go to portfolio for the similarity index % results. 2. Click Show Details as shown below to see your similarity index results.

10 Turnitin Directions for LHSON Student Click the colored % box under the originality report heading to see the report results and view the non-original material identified by the Turnitin program. The report results may not be available immediately and the box under contents will remain in a faded gray color during this time. The color of the report icon indicates the overall similarity index percentage of the paper, based on how much matching text that was found. The possible similarity indices are: Blue (no matching words) Green (1 word-24% matching text) Yellow (25-49% matching text) Orange (50-74% matching text) Red (75-100% matching text) 4. If your similarity index percentage is 24% or below (green or blue), you can now download and save a copy of the Originality Report to your computer. See below for DIRECTIONS FOR DOWNLOADING AND SAVING A COPY OF THE ORIGINALITY REPORT. 5. If the similarity index is above 24% as the sample below indicates, review the non-original material identified by the Turnitin program. See Screen Shot below for example of non-original components of a paper. 6. Under the Match Overview column on the right hand side of the screen below, you will see the percentage of match with sections of your paper and an outside source. Click the box with 1 which has content that is a 3% match to see the component of your paper on the left that has the area with the match. Focus on the higher percentage of matches first, not the low percentages. For example, focus on the 6% match with your paper to revise as in all likelihood this section

11 Turnitin Directions for LHSON Student may have not been cited appropriately. The numbers on the right will correspond with the numbers in the paper. In the example below, the number 2 in the Match Overview column on the right corresponds with the 2 in your paper. After you review the non-original material, you will need to revise the paper until you have a similarity index percentage at the green level (24%) or below (lowest is blue). Your revision should probably focus on citing direct quotes and/or paraphrasing direct quotes appropriately. You are not revising your paper within the Turnitin system. Revise the paper in your word processor and resubmit to Turnitin. See directions below for how to resubmit your revised paper to Turnitin.

12 Turnitin Directions for LHSON Student DIRECTIONS FOR RESUBMITTING A PAPER TO TURNITIN To resubmit a revised paper, complete the same steps for submitting the paper as shown above. Instead of the Submit button, you will see a Resubmit button as shown below to resubmit the paper. Note that if you submit a revised paper, the Originality Report may not be available for 24 hours in order to avoid having it match at or near 100% similarity with your original submission. DIRECTIONS FOR DOWNLOADING AND SAVING A COPY OF THE ORIGINALITY REPORT Once your paper meets the green level or blue level (24% or less) on the Similarity Index score, it is time to download and save the Originality Report. 1. With your Originality Report on the screen, click the icon at the bottom of the screen (arrow is pointing down) See screen shot below with the red arrow pointing to the icon.

13 Turnitin Directions for LHSON Student Click OK when asked if you want to save a copy of the report to you computer 3. Click Save and then download a copy of the report to your computer. 4. Choose to Save the file to a convenient and accessible place on your computer 5. The downloaded originality report will have a different format from the version you view online. Please note: The paper you submit for grading should be the exact same paper (or version) that you submitted to Turnitin for the Originality Report that you are turning in with your assignment. LHSON 05/06/2011