FJWU Organized Three Day Workshop on "Eradicating the Menace of Plagiarism by Using Turnitin"

Rawalpindi: Quality Enhancement Cell, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi organized a Three Days Training Workshop on “Eradicating the Menace of Plagiarism by Using Turnitin”.  Dr. Zenab Jahan, HEC Focal Person on Anti-Plagiarism and Dr. Mian Khurram Shahzad Azam, Addl. Director QEC, were the Resource Persons of the workshop organized for all faculty members of the University.

The Workshop aimed to help and guide the participants about use of Turnitin and its recent upgrades and functions. It comprised of two sessions. In the first Session, Dr. Zainab Jehan, discussed the concept of Self-Plagiarism and identified many ways to avoid this menace. She highlighted importance of integrity of research and emphasized that credit should be given to the real author of a work to ensure integrity for all citations, including self-citation to avoid self-plagiarism. This led to the session by Dr. Mian Khurram Shahzad Azam, on functions of Turnitin. The participants were given training on key features of Turnitin for processing of academic texts, including theses, assignments, papers and research proposals. Dr. Azam also briefed about, quickmark, grading and feedback of assignments, and interpretation of Turnitin Reports.


Dr. Mian Khurram Shehzad Azam, Additional Director, QEC (Quality Enhancement Cell) spoken at the occasion


Dr. Mian Khurram Shehzad Azam, Additional Director, (QEC) delivering lecture