Turnitin is a web-based text-matching software system which is used to determine plagiarism. It's part of La Trobe’s educational approach to minimise plagiarism and ensure standards of academic honesty in assessable work. Students and lecturers can use Turnitin to check that quotations in student writing have been properly acknowledged.
Turnitin is hosted at the Turnitin website and can identify matches in millions of texts:
- student papers already submitted to Turnitin
- online journals and databases including ProQuest, ABI/Inform, Periodical Abstracts, Business Dateline
- electronic books including the Gutenburg Collection of Literary Classics
- a current and extensively archived copy of the publicly accessible Internet (more than 4.5 billion pages updated at a rate of 40 million pages per day)
News and Updates
- 2008 Reducing staff workloads
- 2008 Turnitin training