Reports to give students an idea about the interpretation of the similarity index and additional guidance inĪvoiding plagiarism. In GSM, an absolute maximum of a 20% is set for Turnitin similarity If there are many small parts of sentences or formulae indicated asĬopied, discuss this with your supervisor to see how you can address the issues.īenchmark is the maximum similarity index. If you want to use the exact wording may be able to put the whole sentence in quotation marks.

Reformulate/paraphrase these sentences regardless of whether a reference has been included or not. You should carefully review the Similarity Report and resolve any issues where whole sentences seem to have been copied from one source. Please refresh the page and wait until the report is generated.

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