Checking plagiarism with Turnitin will provide the most accurate results because this tool is used by many schools, lecturers, and students worldwide. Currently, the plagiarism rate is increasing due to overlapping ideas, which makes many students worry about their theses. Understanding this concern, Lucid Gen wants to guide you on how to check plagiarism with Turnitin online and some tips to quickly reduce the plagiarism rate.
How to Check Plagiarism with Turnitin
If you don’t have a Turnitin account, please buy a Turnitin account at Lucid Gen because the shop sells private accounts and does not store content. Your work will not duplicate your own content when the teacher checks for plagiarism with Turnitin later.
Submit File for Plagiarism Check on Turnitin
Step 1: Log in to Turnitin. Access the link turnitin.com/login_page.asp to log in.
Step 2: Select an available class in the account.
Step 3: Choose any slot in that class.
Step 4: Submit your thesis file to Turnitin for a plagiarism check.
Turnitin supports many text formats, you can check plagiarism with Word, PDF, Text files, etc.
For Word files, you should use the “docx” format, other formats (doc, docm, …) may not be processed by Turnitin.
Click the Submit to Turnitin button to send your file to Turnitin.
Step 5: Wait for Turnitin to check for plagiarism and return the results. The speed of results depends on the length of the file, so be patient and don’t be anxious. Click on the file name to view details.
If your file has too many pages (for example, over 50 pages), the waiting time will be a bit long. You can split it into 2 to 4 smaller files for Turnitin to process faster.
During peak times, the waiting time can be up to 24 hours, so you must be patient.
Note: For each slot, you can resubmit the file 2 more times during the first use. After that, you can resubmit the file once every 24 hours with that slot.
Check Duplicate Content Sources
Click the view sources button on the right menu bar. Sources with high plagiarism rates will be ranked at the top. Highlighted paragraphs will have numbers corresponding to their source ranking. When you click on the source in the menu or the number on the paragraph, Turnitin will show details of why your content is duplicated.
Filter Out Sources with One Percent Rate
Sometimes a high plagiarism rate is due to too many one percent sources. These sources will appear when your thesis has a few words similar to that source, such as titles, nouns, phrases. Use the filter feature to remove sources with a one percent rate on Turnitin, and you will see the plagiarism rate drop significantly.
Many customers have asked Lucid Gen to guide them on using Turnitin to remove one percent sources because their school requires it. Lecturers will not count you as plagiarizing because of these sources.
How to Quickly Reduce the Plagiarism Rate
After checking plagiarism with Turnitin, the next thing we want to do is find ways to reduce the plagiarism rate. The tips below from Lucid Gen will help you find solutions for your thesis.
Focus on Fixing High-Rate Sources
Use Turnitin’s filter and sorting features to filter out sources with high plagiarism rates. Just fix the content duplicated with these sources, and your plagiarism rate will effectively decrease.
Rewrite Using New Expressions
Rewrite your paragraph in a new expression, a new perspective. Below are suggestions for rewriting paragraphs duplicated with others and reducing the plagiarism rate.
- Change the level of emphasis in your sentence: more cooperative, more emphatic, more assertive, …
- Change the tense of the sentence: present, past, future, active, passive, …
- Change the narrative perspective: the first person is “I”, the third person is other characters.
- Change the perspective of the issue: “iPhone is very expensive, only the rich buy new iPhones” to “the poor should use iPhones because they are very durable, still smooth after years, and have a higher resale value than other phones”.
- Use different synonyms: “he is a very good student” to “he is a rare talent”.
Ignore Verbatim Quotes
Theses often have quotes that need to be kept verbatim, such as a saying by a philosopher, a concept in a book. Many theses are reported as duplicated content because of these quotes, so don’t worry too much if your thesis is the same.
Your task with these quotes is to annotate them in the format required by your school. Or for quotes that are not too important, consider removing them. Avoid wasting time fixing these parts, as Turnitin even has a feature to filter out Quotes.
Some Notes When Using Turnitin
- Don’t resubmit the file too soon without making significant edits. Make thorough edits before resubmitting to see the difference.
- The same file may have an increased plagiarism rate. Naturally, every hour many theses are submitted to Turnitin, leading to your plagiarism rate increasing by a few percent, mainly due to 1% sources. If you use an account that stores content, the plagiarism rate will increase to 80-99% when rechecked.
- Teachers do not evaluate based on external plagiarism rates. They will ignore sources with minimal duplicate content and quotes. The important thing is that your content is novel, logically argued, easy to understand, persuasive, and in the format required by the school. Your topic may not be new, and the teacher may have read other theses on that topic.
- Don’t borrow accounts from other schools. School-issued accounts will store content. If your teacher checks for plagiarism with Turnitin, they will see your work as plagiarizing your own with a high rate. You will have to go through a lot of trouble to explain.
Conclusion
With the above sharing, Lucid Gen hopes to help you feel more secure, know how to check plagiarism with Turnitin online, and reduce the plagiarism rate as low as possible. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to leave a comment so Lucid Gen can answer. Wish you high scores!
