In most cases, excluding 5 words should safely exclude a student's name from being highlighted in their Similarity Report. As the instructor is likely aware that their student has submitted multiple times, they can rectify this issue by excluding the student's previous submissions from the Similarity Report.
Example 3 : A student has copied and pasted a chunk of text into their paper, due to a lack of knowledge on the topic they are covering. Both students will be shown to have matches against our database.
However, one of these students copied directly from a website, whereas the other provided properly sourced quotes. Instructors can opt to exclude quotes from the Similarity Report to lower similarity scores where applicable.
Example 4 : A student has managed to acquire a copy of another student's paper. In this case, regenerating the Similarity Report of the student who plagiarized will immediately identify collusion allowing you to follow institutional regulation.
Example 5 : A student has submitted a qualitative study to Turnitin, including a significant number of quotes and an extensive bibliography, as required for the topic of the paper. This issue could have been avoided if quotes and bibliography had been excluded from the Similarity Report. Your feedback will help us to improve this guide.
Was this page helpful? We're sorry to hear that If you have the time, we'd love to know how we could improve it. Skip To Main Content. Submit Search. Similarity Score Similarity Reports provide a summary of matching or highly similar text found in a submitted paper. Exclude quotes and bibliography Quotes and bibliography items are widely reused and generally fail to demonstrate original writing.
Overwritten or resubmitted papers may not generate a new Similarity Report for a full 24 hours. This delay is automatic and allows resubmissions to correctly generate without matching to the previous draft. The color of the report icon indicates the similarity score of the paper, based on the amount of matching or similar text that was uncovered.
The possible similarity ranges are:. Students, be sure to consult your instructor's syllabus, contact them directly, or review your institution's overarching policies on what counts as an acceptable similarity score before you submit a paper. Every school, instructor, or assignment could very well have a different amount of matching text that is considered acceptable. Your feedback will help us to improve this guide. Was this page helpful? We're sorry to hear that If you have the time, we'd love to know how we could improve it.
So far, we have noted that the percentage match does not definitively show that your work is plagiarized. This score can be acceptable as long as you have cited your work appropriately.
This may paradoxically mean that your work is supported by inappropriate and insufficient references and sources. According to the universities using the scanner, the Turnitin colors are orange, red, yellow, green, and blue. When your paper contains those colors, you should consider thorough revision or rewriting your paper in its entirety. They are not good indicators. As aforementioned, yellow should prompt you to revise your paper appropriately to reduce the similarity index. Green is the acceptable Turnitin color in most cases.
This is a perfect score. Your instructor may consider giving you bonus points for reducing the similarity index and evading plagiarism. Now that we have understood what Turnitin does and what the originality reports mean, how can you plagiarize without getting caught by Turnitin?
An essay with a similarity report of over 25 percent can be said to be highly plagiarised. Represented by yellow, orange, and red colors, these percentages indicate too much similarity in the work.
For accurate overall percentages, the default setting excludes quoted words, references, and small matches of up to five words.
To determine plagiarism one has to go beyond the similarity percentage provided and look into the original report in detail. Read our guide on how to cheat Turnitin to learn how you can reduce such bad plagiarism scores. All said and done, the bottom line comes to the instructor. He is the one who will determine if your paper is plagiarized or not, whether your Turnitin percentage is at the acceptable similarity score or not. This is because lower scores show that your paper is original and you have not copied much from other sources.
It also advisable that you always cite your sources and reference them well using the referencing style your professor requires. Various institutions have varying acceptable similarity percentages. Types of academic output also determine acceptable similarity percentages.
Publications, on the other hand, should not have more than the acceptable score or level. Though the percentage varies from institution to institution, the content of any work that is copied from web pages is considered plagiarism. This is why it is important to compare the sources of information indicated on the similarity report with what is in the submitted paper.
Such comparison is good and is part of your knowledge on how to use Turnitin well, and you should take time to understand it. There is no good similarity score if plagiarism can be identified.
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