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Example Turnitin Report by Jane Doe FILE T IME SUBMIT T ED 14-JAN-2015 12:33PM SUBMISSION ID 39601934 WORD COUNT 5689 CHARACT ER COUNT 32004 EXAMPLE_ESSAY.DOCX (4 3.4 K)
This extracts from an example Turnitin report will help you to understand how to read and interpret your own Turnitin Reports. Turnitin highlights passages and phrases that it recognises as having come from other sources. However, not all highlighting suggests plagiarism, so it is important to review these reports alongside your referencing guidelines.
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Just because something is highlighted by Turnitin, does not mean that it is a problem. As you can see here, the author has used quotation marks and referenced the original author, date of publication and page number.
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Turnitin has found this phrase in at least one other source meaning one of the following two things has happened: 1. This could mean that it is a commonly-used phrase that cannot be attributed to an author (eg. idioms, phrases signalling transitions in your argument). 2. It is an idea or phrase that you have taken or paraphrased from another source. If this is the case, be sure that you reference the source in which you found this material.
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Sometimes Turnitin does not recognise quoted material. This is usually normal - it does not have access to books that are not yet available on line (although this is constantly being updated). However, it is worth rechecking your reference for this to make sure that you have not made a mistake.
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These numbers correspond to the numbers in the similarity report which appears at the bottom of your Turnitin report.
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It is common for Turnitin to highlight your whole bibliography. This is because the sources you have used are likely to appear in the bibliographies of other academic work. This is not an absolute rule and you should always check you are referencing correctly, but bibliographies can account for quite high percentages of the similarity report.
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As obvious as it sounds, Turnitin can only look at what you have written, it can't tell you what you've missed. Therefore it is important to check your bibliography carefully to make sure that you have included all of your sources.
15%SIMILARITY INDEX
9%INTERNET SOURCES
12%PUBLICATIONS
10%STUDENT PAPERS
1 2%
2 1%
3 1%
4 1%
5 1%
Example Turnitin ReportORIGINALITY REPORT
PRIMARY SOURCES
Mosley, J. E., and C. M. Grogan."Representation in Nonelected ParticipatoryProcesses: How Residents Understand theRole of Nonprofit Community-basedOrganizations", Journal of PublicAdministration Research and Theory, 2012.Publicat ion
plato.stanford.eduInternet Source
Rubenstein, Jennifer C.. "The Misuse ofPower, Not Bad Representation: Why It IsBeside the Point that No One Elected Oxfam: Misuse of Power, Not Bad Representation",Journal of Political Philosophy, 2013.Publicat ion
Michael Saward. "Authorisation andAuthenticity: Representation and theUnelected", Journal of Political Philosophy,2/11/2008Publicat ion
Submitted to London School of Economicsand Political ScienceStudent Paper
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This number indicates what percentage of your essay can be found in other sources. This number does not indicate whether or not you have plagiarised work from other sources. It is important that you look through your work carefully and make sure that you know how to reference the sources you use in the correct way for you discipline.
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This shows how much of your overall similarity rating is made-up of each individual source detected by Turnitin.
