THE VISAYAS State University has subscribed to an online plagiarism checker to ensure the quality of the output of its students.

VSU director for instruction and evaluation Dr. Ma. Rachel Kim. L. Aure said that using Turnitin, a leading academic plagiarism online detection system, will help promote academic integrity, consistency, and fairness across all education and educational research.

Aure said that it will help the students improve their paper works.

The university hopes that the move will prompt faculty and students to develop the practice of citing their references or sources properly, thereby minimizing the risk of submitting plagiarized work.

“This will be beneficial for our faculty members in checking and monitoring student outputs, and in improving their research proposals and other research papers,” Aure said.

“In the same manner, students will also benefit from using Turnitin by encouraging them to produce quality outputs. Because of this, our students will better learn what constitutes plagiarism and eventually develop their academic writing skills,” she added.