The WriteCycle®

Collaborative Writing Solution

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WriteCycle® Collaborative Writing Solution
The Turnitin Originality Report offers a “side-by-side” view of a student’s text with
highlighted matches (left side) compared to color-coded sources of matches (right side).
Instructors can make fast, informed decisions about whether or not matches
are problematic.
Turnitin® Originality Checking
Plagiarism Prevention
Turnitin Originality Checking allows
educators to check students’ work
for improper citation or potential
plagiarism by comparing it against
continuously updated databases.
Every Originality Report provides
instructors with the opportunity to
teach their students proper citation
methods as well as to safeguard
their students’ academic integrity.
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Features and Benefits
• Encourages proper citation
• Over 12 billion web pages
crawled & archived
• Over 100 million student papers
• Over 80,000 major newspapers,
magazines & scholarly journals
• Thousands of books including
literary classics
• Printable reports
• Side-by-side comparison.
Accessible Anytime
Access Turnitin Originality
Checking tools anywhere
from your web browser at any time
using the industry’s most advanced
search technology.
Teachable Moments
Reinforce proper research
and citation methods
and deter plagiarism with Turnitin
Originality Reports.
World’s Best Solution
With a database
of over 100 million
student papers, Turnitin is the only
technology capable of detecting
purchased papers, cheat sites and
student collusion — over 50% of
unoriginal work comes from other
student papers.
Academic Integrity
“I love how it is used as a teaching
tool rather than simply as a way to
catch cheating students. My students
understand that the responsibility is
on them to avoid problems rather
than for me to catch them. Students
seem to be plagiarizing less and
less, at least by copying and pasting
from the Internet.”
2-Year College Writing Instructor
Spring 2009

When students review other students’ work, they see the full paper online, a palette of
standard editing marks (to the right of the paper), and questions provided by the
instructor (at right) that help students to focus their feedback and provide
substantive comments.
PeerMark™ Peer Reviewing
Collaborative Learning
The WriteCycle solution’s patented
PeerMark tools give instructors
the ability to create peer review
assignments that students use
to evaluate and learn from one
another’s work. These assignments
provide a unique and valuable
framework for students to develop
critical thinking and writing skills.
Features and Benefits
• Automatic paper distribution
• Optional anonymous reviews
• Contextual review marks
• Assessment metrics
• Students learn from each other
• Students become more engaged
in course material
• Helps students understand core
course material
• Accessible anytime, anywhere
Easy Paper Distribution
With online, anytime,
anywhere access and
automated paper distribution, peer
reviewed assignments are possible
even in the largest courses.
Collaborative Feedback
Assign sets of standardized
questions to ensure
that students receive consistent
feedback in their peer reviews.
Anonymous Reviews
The flexibility to choose
between anonymous or
non-anonymous peer reviews,
along with many other
customizable options.
Engages Everyone
PeerMark “allows me to deliver the
considerable cognitive benefits of
the peer review experience to my
introductory class of 1,000 students.
Only this brilliant tool allows me to
do so without being swamped by
administrative overhead.”
Prof. John Mitterer, Brock University
(Recipient of the Brock
Distinguished Teaching Award)
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GradeMark provides a customizable palette of standard editing marks (at right), plus
unlimited space to provide comments in text windows. Digital comments are better than
hand-written comments in margins, and easier for students to read.
GradeMark® Paperless Grading
Grade Papers Online
GradeMark is WriteCycle’s
innovative, paperless grading tool
that allows instructors to leave the
days of red ink and stacks of papers
behind. GradeMark is a time-saving
alternative to traditional pen-and-
paper grading, making it easy for
instructors to give students the
valuable, time-sensitive feedback
that’s so essential in building quality
writing skills.
Features and Benefits
• 100% paperless system
• Real-time grading & mark-up
• Track grades with GradeBook
• Faster than traditional grading
• Standardized editing marks
• Assess students over time
• Fully customizable rubrics
• Works with all subjects
• Share rubrics & editing marks
• Export classes
Standard & Custom Marks
Grade student work quickly
and efficiently by adding
editorial highlights, inline comments
and QuickMark™ editing marks
directly on the paper.
Customized Rubrics
Create and
implement fully
customizable
grading rubrics in minutes.
Track Performance
Easily analyze student
performance over time to
identify areas of concern, or track
improvement with comprehensive
statistics and graphs.
Time Saving
“My teachers feel that GradeMark
is a tremendous time saver, saving
around 30% of their time in grading
and commenting on papers online.”
Walter Loblein
Principal
Chatfield Senior High
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 Open Options for Integrations
WriteCycle services can be easily integrated with popular course management, or learning management systems, such

as Desire2Learn®, Blackboard®, and Moodle®, or with any class or university portal using our Open Options for Integration

package. These integrations make WriteCycle and Turnitin seem like natural extensions of the web application your

institution already has in place.

Turnitin Integrates with:

Blackboard
Versions with Building Blocks™
including Vista 3, Vista 4, CE6,
CE8, and Angel 6.3, 7.1, 7.2,
and 7.3

Moodle
1.5, 1.6 , 1.7, and 1.8

Desire2Learn
Learning Environment 8.4

Training, Support, & Professional Development

Our team of highly trained Product Specialists is available to help you implement WriteCycle, train you to use it most

effectively at your institution, and support you and your faculty for the duration of your license. This type of support is

critical to the successful adoption of WriteCycle. We also provide several support tools and resources for users including

customized, face-to-face training sessions, online training walk-throughs, quickstart guides, training videos, user manuals,

live support through phone and e-mail, and a comprehensive searchable knowledge base, and our free WriteCycle

Academy professional development webinars.

Trusted Security
Our company is serious about protecting the privacy and security of our users’ information. We achieve extremely high

levels of security through the use of SSL encryption, redundant servers, sophisticated firewalls, multiple data centers, and

much more. We comply with the Better Business Bureau® and the Safe Harbor privacy and security standards. With a
security system that has never been breached, and a privacy policy of the highest standards, instructors and students can

use WriteCycle and Turnitin with an unsurpassed level of confidence.

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WriteCycle provides educators with the tools to effectively and efficiently improve their students’ critical thinking and

composition skills through formative writing assignments. Turnitin is successfully used by over 9,000 institutions and in

more than 110 countries worldwide. Millions of instructors and students around the world use the real time grading tools

and originality checking service. Turnitin has become a key part of how education works.

For over 10 years, Turnitin has been a market leader in providing outstanding academic learning tools to some of the

finest educational institutions. Only Turnitin has thousands of clients around the world who have vetted the quality of our

service. Only Turnitin receives over 150,000 student papers per day and has a renewal rate of over 90%. Contact us

today to learn how to make WriteCycle and Turnitin valuable resources at your institution.

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summary panel that lists the time spent Madison County Schools often come to me, asking me to run a scan

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to marking!” several levels.”

- Professor James Papple - Dr. Dorothy Bushnell

Brock University Merced College

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