It would involve more laborious research and drudgery, certainly, than simply writing an original paper. It’s hard to imagine the kind of obscure content a student would have to unearth for their pilfering to elude the sensors. The database has been gathering new material for nearly 20 years now, and the company boasts on its website that its “unparalleled index” contains 929-million archived student papers - a Borgesian library of academic content that makes it extraordinarily difficult for would-be plagiarists to steal anything, anywhere.
More broadly, it contributes to the vast scale of Turnitin’s resources. This instant-archive feature is most useful in preventing collusion: two or more students handing in papers with any appreciable overlap would be flagged. Like the Borg in Star Trek, the Turnitin database gets smarter and more adept over time, growing with every paper fired its way. Most ingeniously, Turnitin archives every essay students submit. If someone legitimate published it, Turnitin most likely has it in their servers. They aggregate content from scholarly databases that might not be archived by Google, including “periodicals, biographies, brochures, encyclopedias, magazines, journals, books and abstracts,” as well as medical resources, tens of millions of articles from the academic research publisher Gale and textbooks both new and out-of-print from Pearson and McGraw-Hill. Turnitin uses a “proprietary search algorithm” that “crawls and indexes current and archived web pages, and is comparable to major search engines,” as their About page puts it.
In the early 2000s, it launched as a web service designed to help schools curb the growing trend of copy-and-pasting research without citation from the internet, and it is this speciality purpose that has made it ubiquitous in academia since. Turnitin, the first and most popular plagiarism-detective service, was founded in 1998 by four students at Berkeley, intended to be an online peer-review system. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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