TurnItIn
Turnitin is software that the university subscribes to that detects potential plagiarism. It will generate a “similarity” score that indicates the percentage of the student’s paper that matches the vast content in Turnitin’s database. Your professor can add a dropbox in Pilot for this tool so that you can use it.
More resources
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Citing Your SourcesA WSU Libraries guide to citing your sources in many different styles.
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Wright State Writing CenterA free writing consultation service for Wright State students.
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CopyrightA Wright State University Libraries guide to U.S. Copyright law and using copyrighted content.
Writing about another's ideas
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Note the name of the idea's originator in the sentence or throughout a paragraph about the idea
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Use parenthetical citations, footnotes, or endnotes to refer readers to additional sources about the idea, as necessary
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Be sure to use quotation marks around key phrases or words that the idea's originator used to describe the idea
