A “Turnitin Workshop” has been organized for lecturers and supervisors of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). The objective of the workshop was to eradicate the increasing cases of plagiarism by students in the country and it was held under the Vice-Chancellor’s Initiative.
The two-week workshop introduced the participants to the Turnitin Software, which is a web-based plagiarism detection and prevention system. The software also teaches students how to work with sources especially paraphrasing and quoting techniques in order to avoid plagiarism.
All lecturers and supervisors would now use the platform for sessions with their students for any assignments and particularly for the submission of theses. Each student would submit his/her assignment through the Turnitin Software with an account and the software would detect and provide all the sources from which the student copied the work.
The software would also detect the similarity ratings of a write-up and this refers to the number of times that a particular work has been copied.
