Turnitin Policy: Using Turnitin for Plagiarism Detection and Referencing at UEL

Guidelines for Students on Using Turnitin

Turnitin Policy

1. We recognise the educational desirability that all of our students should enjoythe opportunity to self-submit their work to Turnitin (before submitting for assessment). We also recognise that Turnitin Originality Reports will sometimes assist in the identification of plagiarised work submitted for assessment.

2. We will make Turnitin available to all of our students by way of our virtual learning environment (UELPlus) and we will encourage them to use it to improve their referencing skills.

3. All students will be given the opportunity to make multiple submissions of their written work to Turnitin.

4. All students will be advised, at the point of enrolment, that their work will be made available to third parties (such as Turnitin) for specified purposes, by way of a clause to be added to the Student Contract (the proposed clause, as suggested by Turnitin UK and JISCPAS, is set out in Annex I) and will be referred to Turnitin’s Questions and Answers for Students *.

A Module Leader may decide, in accordance with the policy of the appropriate School, that all student submissions for a particular component of assessment How to Submit a Turnitin assignment

Harvard Referencing - the guide to citation and referencing This guide is based on Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2010) Cite them right: the essential referencing guide. 8th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Study Skills).

Cite them right is now the standard Harvard referencing style at UEL for all Schools apart from the School of Psychology which uses the APA system. This book will teach you all you need to know about Harvard referencing, plagiarism and collusion.

How to access 'Cite them right' online off and on campus

o Click on UEL DIRECT
o Type in your network username and password e.g.u0256978 and Library1
o Click on UEL PLUS
o Under Campus Bookmarks
o Click on Cite them right

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Turnitin Policy

1. We recognise the educational desirability that all of our students should enjoythe opportunity to self-submit their work to Turnitin (before submitting for assessment). We also recognise that Turnitin Originality Reports will sometimes assist in the identification of plagiarised work submitted for assessment.

2. We will make Turnitin available to all of our students by way of our virtual learning environment (UELPlus) and we will encourage them to use it to improve their referencing skills.
3. All students will be given the opportunity to make multiple submissions of their written work to Turnitin.
4. All students will be advised, at the point of enrolment, that their work will be made available to third parties (such as Turnitin) for specified purposes, by way of a clause to be added to the Student Contract (the proposed clause, as suggested by Turnitin UK and JISCPAS, is set out in Annex I) and will be referred to Turnitin’s Questions and Answers for Students *.

A Module Leader may decide, in accordance with the policy of the appropriate School, that all student submissions for a particular component of assessment How to Submit a Turnitin assignment

Harvard Referencing - the guide to citation and referencing This guide is based on Pears, R. and Shields, G. (2010) Cite them right: the essential referencing guide. 8th edn. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Study Skills).

Cite them right is now the standard Harvard referencing style at UEL for all Schools apart from the School of Psychology which uses the APA system. This book will teach you all you need to know about Harvard referencing, plagiarism and collusion.

How to access 'Cite them right' online off and on campus

o Click on UEL DIRECT
o Type in your network username and password e.g.u0256978 and Library1
o Click on UEL PLUS
o Under Campus Bookmarks
o Click on Cite them right
o The book will load
o See above Quick Guide for a more detailed instruction on how to read the online book

Should be submitted to Turnitin, provided that the relevant Module Guide includes a notice to that effect.
All postgraduate research students will be required to submit their dissertations to Turnitin.
Where Turnitin submission is required of work that will contribute to summative assessment and the student fails to submit, s/he will be awarded a mark of 0 for the component in question.

An Originality Report should never be advanced as the sole reason for suspecting that a piece of work is plagiarised, because the judgement as to whether work is plagiarised must always be an academic judgemen