Turnitin is web based ‘text matching’ system that is widely used across the world by many Universities and provides a service that allows for student electronic submitted work e.g. assignment to be compared with a wide variety of resources.
Turnitin does not specifically identify plagiarism however it’s text matching tool can be used by your tutor to identify plagiarism and poor academic practice as a direct comparison is displayed with ‘matched sources’ found.
Turnitin will compare your submitted work with other sources as mentioned and a produce ‘Similarity (originality) report’, highlighting an overall percentage to matched sources and percentages of all matched sources if any. Turnitin does not make any judgments on your work and explicitly state whether plagiarism has been detected. This is a decision that your tutor has to make upon analyzing the similarity report.
Turnitin also allows for your tutors to leave electronic feedback and a mark for your submitted assignment using a tool called GradeMark. Your tutor will let you know if they are using this tool and there is further help topics (see below) on how you can access your mark and feedback if this tool is being used.
It’s useful at this point to highlight what common matches can be found:
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