Turnitin - Plagiarism and collusion

What is plagiarism and colusion?

An important aspect of your tertiary education is to understand and avoid plagiarism and collusion. You need to be aware of Deakin University's policy on plagiarism as well as the disciplinary consequences.

The resources below will help you:

• Plagiarism and collusion self-test
• Referencing and avoiding plagiarism
• Study skills - services and resources to help students perform their best in assignments
• Your Faculty's Student Manual

Using Turnitin

Turnitin is a program that allows you and/or your teacher to check whether there is any unoriginal material in your work by comparing it to a database of print and online materials.

Your teachers may require you to submit your assignments to Turnitin or give you the ability to check your work for similarities against other published work, student assignments, textbooks and websites.

• Plagiarism detection (Turnitin)