Click the Similarity Score in the right panel to see the Match overview.It is the responsibility of your teaching staff to determine the quality of the Similarity Report and to assess whether parts identified by Turnitin as non-original may be reasonably considered as plagiarism. Turnitin does not make a judgement as to whether plagiarism has occurred. When papers are submitted into Turnitin, sections of the papers that match other sources are highlighted and identified in the Similarity Report. Conversely, a low score may contain text that does cause concern. A high score may contain legitimately cited text, and so is not a problem. Similarity Reports only indicate non-original text.
It is very important to understand that the Similarity Score does NOT indicate whether plagiarism has taken place.
This software is used by many Universities throughout Australia and internationally.
Turnitin is an online web-based program that works by comparing electronically submitted papers to billions of pages of content located on the Internet and proprietary databases as well as the work of other students whose papers have also been submitted into the system.
How to access, download and interpret the Turnitin Similarity Report.