Turnitin Services in Preventing Plagiarism

Abstract

Plagiarism is an academic crime that greatly disrupts the performance of a higher education institution. Written works created by the Semarang State University academic community need to be protected for their authenticity. Sometimes the writings of students who are in the process of writing papers in the form of essays, theses and dissertations are required to include other written works as citations to support the novelty of their writing. Since 2021, the Semarang State University Library UPT has been appointed as the gateway for selecting student writing that will be submitted in the Final Assignment Examination. Through the procedures that have been prepared, every student who will take the final exam submits it online in the form of a document file which will be processed by the UPT Library staff and provide the results of the document. From documents that have been sent and uploaded in the Turnitin application, a similarity presentation is produced. These similarity results make it interesting material to examine the percentage level of initial writing and corrections submitted in similarity submissions. This research will look at Turnitin data submitted in 2022. This data is 8000 Turnitin submissions and their improvements. From this data, it can be hoped that this research aims to determine how effective the use of the Turnitin application is in filtering final assignment writing from students before it is tested by the examining committee at the Faculty. After being tested and declared passed, this final assignment will be published in the Unnes repository on the page http://lib.unnes.ac.id.