{"id":686,"date":"2017-01-09T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T00:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/?p=686"},"modified":"2017-01-09T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T00:49:13","slug":"interpreting-turnitin-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/2017\/01\/09\/interpreting-turnitin-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Interpreting Turnitin reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage indicates the amount of text in your essay that directly matches text in the Turnitin database. Thus, a long reference list, a lot of quotes, and the repetition of common phrases can result in a high percentage of matches. &nbsp;If the matches are taken from an outside source and have not been referenced then this could indicate a problem. To avoid this, make sure you include in-text citations (or footnotes) for direct quotes and paraphrased information and include a <a href=\"http:\/\/owll.massey.ac.nz\/referencing\/introduction-to-referencing.php\">full reference<\/a> list for all sources cited in the assignment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For information on interpreting Turnitin reports see p. 4 of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/fms\/NCTL\/Turnitin\/Student_submission_to_TII_070311.pdf\">http:\/\/www.massey.ac.nz\/massey\/fms\/NCTL\/Turnitin\/Student_submission_to_TII_070311.pdf<\/a> and for more about what the percentages mean see <a href=\"http:\/\/turnitin.com\/en_us\/training\/student-training\/about-originalitycheck\">http:\/\/turnitin.com\/en_us\/training\/student-training\/about-originalitycheck<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The percentage indicates the amount of text in your essay that directly matches text in the Turnitin database. Thus, a long reference list, a lot of quotes, and the repetition of common phrases can result in a high percentage of matches. &nbsp;If the matches are taken from an outside source and have not been referenced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-referencing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.massey.ac.nz\/thelighthouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}