See also Cheating and exam fraud
Plagiarism consists in using the ideas, expressions and in general writings of another author by presenting them as one’s own original work, without proper acknowledgement. More specifically, referring to an author’s exact words without quotation marks and/or without any citation mentioning the original source is considered plagiarism. Even when one reproduces someone’s writing by rephrasing it, special attention should be paid to applying certain rules, in order not to commit plagiarism.
iThenticate: similarity checking software
EPFL relies on iThenticate for similarity detection in documents. This online software is provided by the American company Turnitin.
Since January 2015, Master Project Dissertations (hereafter PDM) are automatically checked for text-matching using iThenticate. Doctoral dissertations will follow soon.
For information and advice on how to upload, check and interpret similarity scores in iThenticate please consult the library’s services and trainings in the similarity check link.
For further assistance to professors please write to: [email protected]
For assistance to Master students please write to: [email protected]
For further guidance regarding the marking of Master Projects please consult SAC.
Turnitin plug-in for Moodle
EPFL provides the teachers with Turnitin as a plug-in in Moodle which is explained in this guide. Additionally to ithenticate functions, the plug-in compares all pieces of work submitted by students.