TURNITIN

A Similarity Report measures the similarity of your paper to other online sources.
TURNITIN compares your paper to:

• Current and archived internet material
• Periodicals, journals, and other online publications
• TURNITIN paper repository (all previous submissions to TURNITIN including UCQ student submissions)

This report does not determine whether or not you have plagiarized.

• it is your job to evaluate the report and determine if you need to change how you quoted, paraphrased, or summarized material from other sources.

REMEMBER: Similarity Reports are not 100% accurate.
TURNITIN highlights matches to online sources of 4+ words.

• It will not highlight all cases of plagiarism or weak paraphrasing.
• It will not highlight quotations.
• It will highlight some false matches (words and phrases that would not be considered plagiarism).

Examples of false matches:

• Technical language (insulin dependent diabetes mellitus)
• Proper nouns (Sidra Medical and Research Center)
• Common word groupings (...due to the fact that...)

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