TurnItin

 

Turn it in is a site that teachers can use to determine if their students have plagiarized or not. My assignment was to use the assigned webpages to develop 2 essays that answer some questions my teacher had come up with. The first essay was to copy and paste every bit of my answers and then use the turnitin drop box to turn the paper in. Once the paper was turned in, it old you what percent of the paper were plagiarized. Of course, my first essay had like an 88% plagiarized. The second paper however was a little bit different. We had to summarize and create a paper that told the same information, but we did not copy and paste, instead we retold in our own words. Once I turned my paper in, it had 0% plagiarized. This Website showed me exactly what happens when the teachers use this site to have students electronically submit a paper.

The NETS-T standards that it correlates to would have to be 4a. The standard states to advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, I including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources. The turnitit site allows just that. It represents the proper way to write a paper. The students have the ability to create a correctly documented paper by citations. The teachers need to enforce that it is illegal to plagiarize without using correct documentation.