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| Type of business | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
Type of site | Online SaaS editor |
| Founded | 1998 |
| Headquarters | 2101 Webster Street Suite 1800 Oakland, California 94612, United States |
| Area served | Worldwide |
| Industry | Education |
| Parent | Advance Publications |
| URL | turnitin |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Yes |
| Users |
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Content licence | Proprietary |
Turnitin (stylized as turnitin) is an Internet-based similarity detection service run by the American company Turnitin, LLC, a subsidiary of Advance Publications.
Founded in 1998, it sells its licenses to universities and high schools who then use the software as a service (SaaS) website to check submitted documents against its database and the content of other websites with the aim of identifying plagiarism. Results can identify similarities with existing sources and can also be used in formative assessment to help students learn to avoid plagiarism and improve their writing.[citation needed]
Students may be required to submit work to Turnitin as a requirement of taking a certain course or class. The software has been a source of controversy, with some students refusing to submit, arguing that requiring submission implies a presumption of guilt. Some critics have alleged that use of this proprietary software violates educational privacy as well as international intellectual-property laws, and exploits students' works for commercial purposes by permanently storing them in Turnitin's privately held database.[1]
Turnitin, LLC also runs the informational website plagiarism.org and offers a similar plagiarism-detection service for newspaper editors and book and magazine publishers called iThenticate. Other tools included with the Turnitin suite are GradeMark (online grading and corrective feedback) and PeerMark (student peer-review service).
In the UK, the service is supported and promoted by JISC as 'Plagiarism Detection Service Turnitin UK'. The Service is operated by iParadigms, in conjunction with Northumbria Learning, the European reseller of the Service.[2]
- ^ "A Guide for Resisting Edtech: the Case against Turnitin". hybridpedagogy.org. June 15, 2017. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
- ^ "Turnitin UK 2021-2022" (PDF). University of Bristol.