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Tunritin.com checks against three databases of content:
1)A copy of the publicly accessible Internet (more than 2 billion pages updated at a rate of 30-40 million pages per day)
2) Millions of published works (including ABI/info, periodical abstracts, business datelines, and tens of thousands of electronic books)
3) Every student paper ever submitted to Turnitin.com (which grows daily!)
For more information about how to use Turnitin, see our Tips and Tutorials section.
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Helping Babson students with their writing development is a key focus of Babson College. While faculty and educational resources (such as the Babson Librarians) spend concentrated efforts teaching students the difference between original and non-original work, students can still have a hard time grasping the nuances of plagiarism. Here are a few examples of how online plagiarism prevention software is being used here at Babson:
- Students work on a semester-long original writing project and need to check the work prior to submitting it to ensure that they have cited all works properly
- Students work in groups to create research papers and need to make sure all the statements are paraphrased and not plagiarized
- Faculty sometimes receive written assignments that appear questionable and need to check them for originality
Babson faculty saw a need for an online tool that faculty and students could use to help verify the originality of a student's work. The technology that Babson uses to support plagiarism prevention is Turnitin.
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