Turnitin Draft Coach is an application designed to assist students with their academic writing by providing instant feedback utilizing the following features:
Similarity Check is used to protect students from unintentional plagiarism.
Citations Check assists students in properly citing their sources
Grammar Guide highlights grammar issues and provides correction suggestions.
Draft Coach is available to Brown students, staff, and faculty. It can be accessed from Brown Google Docs or from your Brown Microsoft 365 account.
How to Use Turnitin Draft Coach
After opening your preferred writing application (Google Docs or Microsoft 365) and launching Draft Coach, choose the feature you need to use, Similarity Check, Citations Check, or the Grammar Guide.
Similarity Check
- Check your paper against online sources before submitting it.
Checking your draft in advance does not add your document to the Turnitin online repository.
- Students are allowed to run three similarity checks on their draft.
- Once the scan is over, a percentage rating will be provided indicating how close your paper matched documents within their online repository. You can then click through the provided detailed suggestions on how to correct them.
Information on how the similarity score is determined can be found on the Understanding Turnitin Draft Coach guide.
Citations Check
- Track your sources and citations.
- The scan will identify when a citation is missing.
- Run as often as needed. There are no scan attempt limitations.
Grammar Guide
- Identify grammar errors you may have missed while proofreading.
- Provides suggestions on how to correct errors.
- Run as often as needed. There are no scan attempt limitations.
Resources
Turnitin has a support center that assists with Draft Coach questions and a variety of knowledgebase articles including:
Need Additional Help?
- For help with using Turnitin, please submit a Turnitin Support Ticket.
- For help with Canvas, please contact [email protected]
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