Turnitin Dissertation Checker is a dissertation similarity detection system widely used in educational institutions and organisations to prevent academic misconduct and enhance academic integrity.
The key benefits of the system include: detecting plagiarism, providing similarity reports, educational feedback, supporting teaching and learning, enhancing academic integrity, a global database and ease of use.
In the UK, Turnitin is used as a tool for academic integrity to check students’ dissertations, but the users are limited to schools, educational institutions, etc.
The common passing standard for Turnitin checking repetition rate for undergraduate students is under 20%, while it is common for master’s degree students to be under 15%. But there are also schools that have their own standards.
The first thing to make clear when using Turnitin to check your paper is that the rate of checking does not fully represent the level of plagiarism.
This is because when citing a document, the Turnitin system is unable to determine the legitimate citation of the document, so for the citation part of the check, Turnitin may make a misjudgment.
After completing the thesis, we need to make modifications and adjustments according to the feedback from Turnitin to minimise the repetition rate.
Especially for English dissertations, it is recommended to use tools such as Turnitin, Crosscheck/iThenticate, Scribbr, Copyleaks and Grammarly for checking and revising.
After finishing the dissertation, we also need to double check the formatting, punctuation, spelling and other details of the dissertation to ensure the quality of the whole dissertation.
At the same time, we need to make sure that the citations and references in the paper are correctly formatted and that we pay attention to the correct way of citing them to avoid being regarded as plagiarism.
