Library and Learning Services Guide to Understanding the Similarity Report.To help you understand this process, we recommend visiting and reviewing the following two guides: Normally this is just seen by your lecturers however you will be able to submit a draft submission where you can see this score for yourself. In doing so, it will generate a 'similarity report' that gauges how similar it is to previous submissions via Turnitin. When you submit an assignment at the University of Suffolk, it will be run through the TurnItIn system, which supports staff and students in checking for plagiarism. The role of the percentage score, for example, could encourage students to cut out important pieces of work in the hope of reducing percentages, instead of understanding how to reference cited text or paraphrase it. A high score means that students have plagiarised.That a low score indicates that students have not plagiarised.That there is an acceptable level of plagiarism, represented by a percentage score:.The similarity score determines if the student has cheated.The sole aim of using TurnItIn is to identify ‘cheats’.Here are some concerns/misconceptions that students may have about TurnItIn: This helps students and academics in observing how and where referencing has been used, how arguments of others have been presented (e.g., paraphrased) in relation to their own perspective, and it can also help to check spelling and grammar in written submissions. It does this by checking student work against a database or catalogue of papers, journals, books and websites, and matching words and word combinations. Turnitin or Tii is a tool that supports staff and students in identifying one aspect of plagiarism (text that matches another piece of work).

These similarities are presented to the learner and marker in a ‘similarity report’. TurnItIn compares assignments to others in its database for similarities. Submitted assignments are uploaded to TurnItIn.

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