Services
Plagiarism-checking Services
To improve the level of academic research, establish a sense of academic integrity, and abide by academic norms, the Library provides plagiarism-checking services for Chinese-written theses & dissertations, as well as English-written articles, theses & dissertations to students.
Plagiarism-checking services for Chinese-written theses & dissertations
1. Plagiarism Checking System
Turnitin is used to detect plagiarism. The service is free of charge and the time of submission is unlimitied by the course expired date.
2. Account Activation
Library has set up Turnitin account for graduate students. A verification email from Turnitin is sent to your university email. Please follow the instructions to complete the account settings. When setting up an account, please fill in your university email address “student ID @cityu.mo”, and your last name in uppercase.
3. Workflow
Please click https://www.turnitin.com to login. You will see the courses and assignment created by the library for you. In the assignment page, you can submit papers by clicking“Submit”. After a successful upload, you can refresh and check the similarity result in the assignment interface. Please click here for more information.
4. Requirements
4.1 File types:Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, WordPerfect, PostScript, PDF, HTML, RTF, OpenOffice (ODT), Hangul (HWP), Google Docs, and plain text
4.2 Maximum file size is 100MB and file must be less than 800 pages
5. Important Notes
5.1 Similarity Report will not generate immediately right after submission. It may take 1-2 hours to generate report for the first 3 submission. Please note that the Similarity Report will generate after 24 hours from 4th resubmission.
5.2 Turnitin is mainly used for English-written documents, and similarity check of Chinese-written articles only serves as reference