• Turnitin Originality Checking is an educational tool that allows students and their instructors to check students' work for improper citation or potential plagiarism by comparing it against continuously updated databases.

• Features & Benefits– Encourages Proper Citation– Over 12 Billion Web Pages Crawled & Archived– Over 100 Million Student Papers– Over 80,000 Major Newspapers, Magazines & Scholarly Journals– Thousands Of Books Including Literary Classics– Printable Reports– Side-By-Side Comparison

Go to www.turnitin.comRegister as a new user

Class ID:Enrollment Password: chomsky

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Enter the ‘class ID’ and ‘class enrollment password’ given to you by your instructor

Click on our class

Locate the appropriate assignment, and click “submit”

Upload your submission

Review your submission one final time and click “submit”

Return to the main screen by clicking “go to portfolio”

To check the report generated for your submission, click “show details”

Green = OKOrange = you probably have plagiarized; Click on the box with orange and percentage to see the problem areas. Then check your paper again, make necessary changes, and resubmit it.Red = You certainly have plagiarized and are in danger of receiving an F in the course. Click on the box with red and percentage to see the problem areas. Then make changes to your paper and resubmit it.

After you click on the box with color and percentage, you’ll be taken to a screen that shows the sections in your paper that are word-for-word the same as what is written in other sources (provided on the right.)

After you have made changes to your paper on your computer, save the new file, return to the assignment screen on Turnitin.com, and resubmit your paper. Repeat the whole process until you have a “green” originality report.