Presentation about Turnitin given at the Continuing Education Brown Bag on Friday, April 8, 2011.

1. Turnitin Facilitator – Aisha Wood-Jackson

2. How does it work? Instructor requests an account from Vincent McGuire – vincent.mcguire@colorado.edu. Once account is created, the Instructor logs-in to Turnitin.comto create a profile. Instructor creates a class. Instructor creates an assignment in Turnitin. Students or Instructors submit an assignment to the drop box. Turnitin compares the paper to all the material in their database. Turnitin produces an Originality Report.

3. A Multipronged Approach Honor code Point students to online writing support – http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/how/citationstyle.htm http://owl.english.purdue.edu/ Provide students with a one-page example of most commonly used reference formats and in-text citation guidance Make writing style guide a required text