Turnitin checks to ensure that your use of quotations is accurate and that you haven't plagiarized anything. Your essay will be scanned against the entire Internet and millions of other students who have submitted essays to the Turnitin database. To submit an essay, you must have already created a new user profile.You also need to have an electronic copy of your essay ready to upload. To submit, follow these steps:

Step One. Login to Turnitin using your regular email address and the alphanumeric password your created in your user profile. Remember, you don't need to click on create a user profile--you already did that earlier. The computer knows who you are--just Log in.

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Step Two. Enter your class by clicking on it. If you have a lot of teachers using Turnitin, you may have a few classes to choose from.

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Step Three. An assignment list should pop up. If not, your teacher hasn't created one yet and you should remind him or her to create one. Click on the submit icon and upload your essay. When you click browse, a screen will appear asking you to specify where it is on your harddrive.

Then . . .

Congratulations! How do you know it's plagiarized or not? Well, if the teacher calls you into his or her office next week or so, you'll know. The teacher may also enable the preferences settings to allow you to see the results of your own submissions.