Turnitin® Worksheet
Turnitin® reports help students and instructors identify areas of a paper containing quoted material that has not been properly identified with quotation marks. Although these reports can be very useful in helping students to avoid inadvertently committing plagiarism, it is important to know how to read the reports in order to get the most benefit from their use.
Students and instructors receive different reports when submitting a piece of writing to Turnitin. This is because instructors are able to see if the writing matches material that was submitted by another University of Phoenix student in an earlier course. However, owing to privacy concerns, students cannot see these results. Remember that just because a piece of writing matches work submitted by another student, this does not mean that one …show more content…
Your response to each question should be 150 to 300 words.
1. What is “common wording” and how does it affect the results of a Turnitin® report?
Turnitin is trusted plagiarism detection service for students and teachers. It scans its own databases, and also has licensing agreements with large academic proprietary databases.
So you need to re-write your dissertation and shows that you write something that could be considererd plagiarism or that some one else has also wrote about in a very similar way.
2. What is plagiarism? Is any percentage of “similarity” considered plagiarism? Why or why not?
There is not a set percentage of similarity that has been established. It more or less would be up to the instructor when they review that report. Different assignments however would very depending on if you are writing on a more open subject like eating junk food or a more detailed report on the Holocost. One you could easily reword and give credit where as on the other it would be much more