How do I understand the TurnItIn report/score? So, understand that TII is a valuable tool, for both the student and the instructor, but it is not a complete substitute for carefully reading papers in the grading process. Meanwhile, if a writer uses a common phrase in the same way as another writer, TII might flag that. So, if a writer steals another’s work, but states it differently enough, TII won’t catch it. TII cannot test DIRECTLY for plagiarism, it can only look for matching phrases that might suggest plagiarism. TII then provides a report showing any matching phrases, and a percentage similarity score. TII is a similarity checker that looks at written work submitted by students, searching for phrases that match other documents TII maintains a very large collection of Internet, academic and student paper content to test student submissions against.
TurnItIn (or TII) is a tool intended to help detect plagiarism.
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