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Submitting Papers Electronically Using Turnitin.com By taking this course, you agree that all required papers may be subject to submission of textual similarity review to Turnitin.com. All major out-of-class assignments will be submitted to the online plagiarism protection service, turnitin.com. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism in other papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use posted on the Turnitin.com site. (http://www.turnitin.com/static/usage.html). According to the Family Compliance Office of the U.S. Department of Education, your papers are education records within the meaning of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) (http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html). Education records may not be disclosed to third parties in a form that identifies you without your consent. Since Turnitin.com is a third party, you must choose one of the two ways below (not both) to submit papers to Turnitin.com in order to comply with FERPA. 1. You consent to disclose personal identification (your name) to turnitin.com You may consent to release your personal identification to Turnitin.com by establishing an account and uploading your paper. If you do not already have a Turnitin.com account, open an account immediately. Go to http://www.turnitin.com, click the “New Users” link in the upper right, and follow the instructions to create your student account. When you have an ID, add this class. The class ID for this class is __________________________ The enrollment password is “__________________________”. Turnitin.com will ask you to identify yourself by use of an e-mail password; use your Gordon e-mail account to identify yourself to turnitin.com. Accounts set up with other e-mail providers will be deleted. ----- OR ----- 2. You do not consent to disclose personal identification (your name) to turnitin.com If you choose not to consent to release your personal identification to Turnitin.com, you must send your paper to your instructor by email as an electronic attachment that can be opened by Microsoft Word, by the deadline given on the syllabus. Your identifying information will be removed and the paper uploaded to Turnitin.com for you. Because your paper will not be in a Turnitin.com account that is accessible to you, you will not be able to view your report on-line. Instead, after the deadline has passed and all papers have been processed by Turnitin.com, your instructor will e-mail an electronic copy of your paper’s report to you. Your paper will be processed by Turnitin.com whichever option you choose. The different options simply determine how the paper is submitted to Turnitin.com, whether the paper has your name on it, and how you receive the Turnitin.com report. Important Note: Whether or not you consent to disclose personal information, you need to complete a “test upload” on the turnitin.com web site prior to your submission of required work. The test upload will not affect your course average and need not be a sample of your own work. For the purposes of the test, do not submit material related this course. You can read more about Turnitin.com here: http://www.turnitin.com Turnitin.com is compatible with most word processor programs, but not all. Don’t use Windows Vista. |