Directions for Turning in Final Draft of Research Paper

After you've added your interview (see handout) and made your revisions, log on to turnitin.com (see link at right). Upload your paper before 8 a.m. on Monday. If you click on Compatibility Report, it will show you how many of your words match your sources. If it said 100%, then that would mean a person cut and pasted an entire paper. If it said 50%, it would mean a person copied half the paper. It compares it to your sources. If it is 20% or less, it will show as green (good). It's fine if you have a 4% or 8% compatibility report; it's chance that a certain amount of words will be repeated.

You can only upload an assignment once, so you may want to upload your paper to the assignment that says Rough Draft first to see what the compatibility report says. I've already recorded a grade for the rough draft; I created that assignment so students could try it out first.

I'm trying to figure out how to set the website to allow resubmissions. In the meantime, let's see how this works.