This is typical as you engage with key concepts and specialize in your field of study. You can also come to see Academic Skills or talk to your lecturers or tutors.As you progress in your Walden program, you may find that you research and write about a topic more than once. If you are unsure of how to do this, see our information on using sources. Regardless of Turnitin’s text matches or similarity percentage, before submitting any assignment, you should check each of your quotes, paraphrases and summaries to make sure you have not inadvertently plagiarised.
Remember that your ideas, your argument and your analysis are the most important aspects of your writing. Sometimes students are tempted to use other people's words because they do not feel confident with their own writing. It is considered plagiarism if you have copied someone else's work, including another student's paper, recycled some of your own work, or taken material directly from another source and made it appear to be your own. Remember that when you paraphrase, you must still acknowledge the author by correctly referencing the original work. If you get a match on Turnitin when you paraphrase, it will generally indicate that your paraphrasing is too similar to the original and you need to rephrase it. This also applies to reusing assignments previously submitted for assessment (also known as 'recycling'). It is to be expected that a certain percentage of your academic work will always contain matches, as you are required to include evidence and examples from a variety of sources in your assignment.
This report needs to be interpreted carefully in a constructive way to improve the academic integrity of your work.Ī match in your assignment indicates that a section of your work is not original because it directly matches writing stored in the Turnitin database. Turnitin also gives your work a 'similarity index', which is the percentage of text in your assignment that has been matched to other sources. If matches are found, the texts are highlighted and linked to the original sources. Websites (such as Wikipedia) and webpagesĪssignments that have already been submitted at ANU or at other education institutions in Australia and around the world. An originality report is generated which indicates what percentage of your work is your own and what percentage comes from other sources. When you submit your work to Turnitin, your assignments are checked against a large database of academic publications and other sources to find any matching text sections.
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