your work as instructed by your tutor. Turnitin is being used to deter plagiarism, rather than to detect it and punish you. Accordingly, you will find that in many cases you will be exposed to it in a formative (or learning) situation, before it is used for real to mark your assignments/assessments. We hope that this will enable you to understand in more detail how to cite and reference material, and how to synthesize and evaluate the work of other people. Your tutor will create a link to Turnitin from an area in your module Blackboard site. In order to submit your work you should login to Blackboard and enter the relevant module site.Then click on the link that your tutor has set-up and attach the correct file. Yes, you will receive Turnitin's digital receipt (giving you a Paper ID number) as well as the text submitted to Turnitin which you can print off for your records. You will also receive confirmation by email to your p-number@learner.dmu.ac.uk email account containing these same details. This does depend on the size of your assignment; it can take anything from ten minutes for a single assignment to up to an hour for a dissertation. Other factors include on how many other university staff around the UK happen to be submitting assignments at the same time. Some larger files are taken up to 24 hours to be processed. Read this in conjunction with the question 'Why can't I see my originality report?' 12. What