Examples Of Turnitin Report Worksheet
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Turnitin® Worksheet
Turnitin® reports help students and instructors identify areas of a paper containing quoted material that has not been properly identified with quotation marks. Although these reports can be very useful in helping students to avoid inadvertently committing plagiarism, it is important to know how to read the reports in order to get the most benefit from their use.
Students and instructors receive different reports when submitting a piece of writing to Turnitin. This is because instructors are able to see if the writing matches material that was submitted by another University of Phoenix student in an earlier course. However, owing to privacy concerns, students cannot see these results. Remember that just because a piece of writing matches work submitted by another student, this does not mean that one …show more content…
student copied from the other. Rather, it often means that both students used the same common source, generally the class textbook.
An incident of plagiarism does not happen until the writing has been posted to a class forum, so a high match on a student report does not mean that you have committed plagiarism. Rather, it means that you need to review the paper and correct citation errors prior to submitting it.
Review the University of Phoenix Material: How to Read a Turnitin® Report document and answer the following questions.
Your response to each question should be 150 to 300 words.
1. What is “common wording” and how does it affect the results of a Turnitin® report?
Turnitin is trusted plagiarism detection service for students and teachers. It scans its own databases, and also has licensing agreements with large academic proprietary databases.
So you need to re-write your dissertation and shows that you write something that could be considererd plagiarism or that some one else has also wrote about in a very similar way.
2. What is plagiarism? Is any percentage of “similarity” considered plagiarism? Why or why not?
There is not a set percentage of similarity that has been established. It more or less would be up to the instructor when they review that report. Different assignments however would very depending on if you are writing on a more open subject like eating junk food or a more detailed report on the Holocost. One you could easily reword and give credit where as on the other it would be much more
difficult.
3. Why might a student's Turnitin report generate a match percentage different from an instructor's Turnitin report?
Student Turn it in reports do not have access to all the same reports that the instructors do. The instructor uses Turnitin they receive results that not only compare to a database of essays but also by students from the university that have also taken the class and could have possibly wrote about the same topic and both had very similar ideas.The student could have received information from a student aid site that the previous students work some how ended up on as well and not realized that they are actually using a previous students work. You can avoid these errors by always properly citing your work and not copying anything directly from the source and not giving credit when credit is due.
Also, it is possible both students copied their wording directly from a textbook.
4. Why might the identified source in a Turnitin® report be different from the source you used to write your paper?
The turnitin report pulls from several different sources any many cites could actually contain the same information. However the turnitin report is going to show you the cites that is finds first.
5. Why is it important to locate the source you used, rather than simply citing the source identified by Turnitin®?
You should always find the source that you used because that is where you found the information. Weather both cites say the same thing you should give credit to the person you actually receive the information from and not to another who you did not actually receive the information that you used.
Turnitin® Worksheet
Turnitin® reports help students and instructors identify areas of a paper containing quoted material that has not been properly identified with quotation marks. Although these reports can be very useful in helping students to avoid inadvertently committing plagiarism, it is important to know how to read the reports in order to get the most benefit from their use.
Students and instructors receive different reports when submitting a piece of writing to Turnitin. This is because instructors are able to see if the writing matches material that was submitted by another University of Phoenix student in an earlier course. However, owing to privacy concerns, students cannot see these results. Remember that just because a piece of writing matches work submitted by another student, this does not mean that one …show more content…
student copied from the other. Rather, it often means that both students used the same common source, generally the class textbook.
An incident of plagiarism does not happen until the writing has been posted to a class forum, so a high match on a student report does not mean that you have committed plagiarism. Rather, it means that you need to review the paper and correct citation errors prior to submitting it.
Review the University of Phoenix Material: How to Read a Turnitin® Report document and answer the following questions.
Your response to each question should be 150 to 300 words.
1. What is “common wording” and how does it affect the results of a Turnitin® report?
Turnitin is trusted plagiarism detection service for students and teachers. It scans its own databases, and also has licensing agreements with large academic proprietary databases.
So you need to re-write your dissertation and shows that you write something that could be considererd plagiarism or that some one else has also wrote about in a very similar way.
2. What is plagiarism? Is any percentage of “similarity” considered plagiarism? Why or why not?
There is not a set percentage of similarity that has been established. It more or less would be up to the instructor when they review that report. Different assignments however would very depending on if you are writing on a more open subject like eating junk food or a more detailed report on the Holocost. One you could easily reword and give credit where as on the other it would be much more
difficult.
3. Why might a student's Turnitin report generate a match percentage different from an instructor's Turnitin report?
Student Turn it in reports do not have access to all the same reports that the instructors do. The instructor uses Turnitin they receive results that not only compare to a database of essays but also by students from the university that have also taken the class and could have possibly wrote about the same topic and both had very similar ideas.The student could have received information from a student aid site that the previous students work some how ended up on as well and not realized that they are actually using a previous students work. You can avoid these errors by always properly citing your work and not copying anything directly from the source and not giving credit when credit is due.
Also, it is possible both students copied their wording directly from a textbook.
4. Why might the identified source in a Turnitin® report be different from the source you used to write your paper?
The turnitin report pulls from several different sources any many cites could actually contain the same information. However the turnitin report is going to show you the cites that is finds first.
5. Why is it important to locate the source you used, rather than simply citing the source identified by Turnitin®?
You should always find the source that you used because that is where you found the information. Weather both cites say the same thing you should give credit to the person you actually receive the information from and not to another who you did not actually receive the information that you used.