The report highlights text in your submitted work that matches content in Turnitin’s databases. The person marking your submitted work will review the originality report generated by the Turnitin service. This video covers how to access the Originality Report, what the Similarity Index is, and how the Originality Report is used to identify plagiarism. How to use Turnitin to help avoid plagiarism Downloading or printing your Turnitin originality report This would be considered an innocent match.
For example, if a unit coordinator sets a question that all students must answer, likely that question text will match in all of the assignment submissions for that unit.
The report also includes a Similarity Index which is calculated as the number of highlighted words divided by the total number of words in your assignment.īe aware that Curtin does not define a ‘safe’ level for the Similarity Index, nor is there a level that signals that plagiarism has occurred. Turnitin does not distinguish between ‘innocent matches’ and those that may be considered plagiarism.
Turnitin produces an Originality Report which highlights the text in your assignment that matches or is similar to another source, and links to the original source. Find out more about the Changes to Turnitin from November 2022.
