Turnitin is a Web-based service that can find and highlight matching or unoriginal text in a written assignment. It uses data-mining to compile a large database of electronic academic materials which it indexes and stores. Faculty can send their students' assignments to the Turnitin database or else set up to allow students to send their own assignments to the service for checking.
Turnitin basically checks the assignment against its database of materials to look for matches or near-matches in strings of text. Turnitin then generates an Originality Report online. The Originality Report summarizes and highlights matching text.
Students find the Originality Report useful for editing papers that include too many quotes and paraphrases. Faculty find the Originality Report useful as a tool to teach students proper citation practices and highlight the need for more student originality. Faculty can also use Turnitin as a tool to detect possible instances of plagiarism.
Student Training Information
Creating a Student User Profile
How to enroll in a class
How to submit a paper
Use the 5 important criteria to evaluate web sources. Don't believe everything you read.
Noodlebib - you must login at school the first time to create an account. After that,you can use Noodlebib from anywhere. When creating a Noodlebib account, your username must be based on your real name - i.e., it must be recognizable as the name of a student at St. Xavier High School. In addition, your password must be Jesuit appropriate. Accounts that are created with unrecognizable usernames and/or inappropriate passwords will be deleted (and you will lose any work that you have created). If you forget your username or password, please contact a member of the library staff. For most classes at St. Xavier, use the MLA Advanced citation style.
Important
For Turnitin, you must create your account using your school (Microsoft Live) email account. Please create one account only. You can resubmit your paper under the same account until the due date, using the revision assignments. That is, submit the paper the first time under the top assignment. Submit revisions under the revision assignments. DO NOT create multiple accounts or this will cause your paper to have very high similarity scores.
For Noodlebib, your username should reflect your real name - i.e., use your school login ID as the base and add letters or numbers after that base if necessary. Your password should be Jesuit appropriate.
What is an Annotated Bibliography? (from Cornell University)