The tutor analyses the similarity report carefully as part of the decision-making process to determine if students' work may have been plagiarised.Turnitin generates a similarity report indicating which parts of the students' work is unoriginal, together with a list of sources.Turnitin compares the students' work against electronic sources including the Internet, books, journals and other students' work.Students are allowed to submit a draft version of their work before submitting the final version for assessment purposes The students submit their work (assignment, FYP, long essay, dissertation, etc.) in the Turnitin Assignment activities.
Turnitin is used by many universities around the world. The University of Malta is committed to the use of electronic text-matching software - Turnitin - as one aspect of a broader strategy to deter and detect plagiarism.
