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The Top 15 Misconceptions About Turnitin

Misconception #15 15) Turnitin employs legions of writing experts to read and evaluate papers for plagiarism.

Misconception #14 14) Turnitin automatically evaluates and grades papers … eliminating the need for instructors to grade them.

Misconception #13 13) iParadigms has expertise in plagiarism and can render judgment on specific cases.

Turnitin Leadership Planning Session Misconception #12 12) Turnitin compares a paper against EVERYTHING EVER WRITTEN... web pages, books, publications, unpublished works, etc…

Misconception #11 11) Matched text is likely to be completely coincidental or common knowledge.

Misconception #10 10 ) Students can easily “game” Turnitin to escape detection.

Turnitin Leadership Planning Session Misconception #9 9 ) All students hate Turnitin.

Turnitin Leadership Planning Session Misconception #8 8) Student copyrights are compromised in some way by Turnitin.

Turnitin Leadership Planning Session Misconception #7 7) Every student paper submitted becomes part of the Turnitin database - forever.

Misconception #6 6) The source named in the Originality Report is the exact source used by the writer.

Misconception #5 5) Papers in the Turnitin database are easily accessible by others so privacy is not protected

Misconception #4 4) An instructor can determine if a paper is OK or not from the Similarity Index % and doesn’t need to look at the Originality Report.

Misconception #3 3) The "Similarity Index" shows the percentage of paper that is plagiarized.

Misconception #2 2) Turnitin works the same in all situations and is not flexible.

Misconception #1 1) Turnitin detects plagiarism.