About Turnitin

Using Turnitin in your course

Your course at Jamestown Community College may use Turnitin to check the originality of student written work. Turnitin can help students be successful in creating their own written work and help prevent plagiarism.

If Turnitin is used in your course, you should see a statement similar to the following in the syllabus for your course. You should also ask your instructor if Turnitin will be used for written work in your course.

Students agree that by taking this course all required papers may be subject to submission for textual similarity review to Turnitin.com for the detection of plagiarism. All submitted papers will be included as source documents in the Turnitin.com reference database solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers. Use of the Turnitin.com service is subject to the Usage Policy posted on the Turnitin.com site.