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Information for Students

Turnitin is an effective tool that you can use to improve your academic writing skills. Often you are encouraged to refer to other people's ideas in your essays and reports and attribute (or reference) them appropriately, while studying at University. Sometimes, through lack of referencing skills, a student may inadvertently use another person's work and/or not reference the work properly. In some cases, this may be referred to as "plagiarism".

Turnitin is a program designed to assist in detecting these errors, and can allow you to revise your work before final submission for assessment. The program can assist your referencing skills development using the "Turnitin Originality Report".

Turnitin is not the only solution to developing referencing skills. A lot of practice; asking for advice from your lecturer/tutor; referring to your course manual; working through the InfoSkills modules; or attending sessions through the Learning Support Program - are all avenues to help you develop your academic writing skills.

The University's support framework for upholding Academic Integrity.