Timeline for How do I lower the similarity index percentage in iThenticate?
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| Jul 3 at 21:34 | comment | added | Daniel Hatton | @user13267 "One issue I can think of is may be all the phrases cited from other articles are not properly formatted (not within quotation marks for example)" But surely you know whether or not you used quotation marks when you directly quote from a source? | |
| Jul 3 at 4:39 | answer | added | Anonymous | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 3 at 4:17 | answer | added | hiccups | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 3 at 3:16 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @user13267 It sounds like the people running your institution are extremely foolish if they base things on this software output. Completely worthless education they're subjecting you to, I'm afraid. | |
| Jul 3 at 2:27 | comment | added | user13267 | @Snijderfrey This is apparently to prevent plagiarism. I'm not aware of anything else this is possibly being mandated for | |
| Jul 3 at 2:26 | comment | added | user13267 | @Anonymous yes this is mandatory and after some looking around there seems to be guidelines (exclude quotes/bibliographies/phrases/small matches-10 words/source matches-by 1%), so now I don't understand how it's counting words like "Introduction" as a match. One issue I can think of is may be all the phrases cited from other articles are not properly formatted (not within quotation marks for example), but I'd assume such instances would be clearly highlighted in the report, as I'm guessing those are the easiest problems for the software to catch | |
| Jul 2 at 22:46 | comment | added | Anonymous | And is this mandatory? If it is, whoever is mandating it should have guidelines on how they set the software up (and I've used it-- it definitely has settings) and what you should do with or about the results. | |
| Jul 2 at 21:38 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Jul 2 at 17:43 | comment | added | Snijderfrey | Is the goal of this rule to detect/prevent plagiarism, or is there some other purpose that you know of? As the answer states, for plagiarism this makes no sense, so are you able to make some other sense of it? | |
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| Jul 2 at 15:39 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | @user13267: That would of course be a "quote", not a "paraphrase" (I'm assuming you've actually got the copied text noted in quotation marks). It's, respectfully, kind of a red flag to not know that. | |
| Jul 2 at 15:08 | comment | added | user13267 | ... it will show that the blue sections came from wikipedia .com | |
| Jul 2 at 15:08 | comment | added | user13267 | @Anonymous a department at the University will run it through the software and give me the results. I think its one of those softwares where a single document check costs $130 or something for a normal person, so not really feasible for an individual. The software gives out a pdf file where sections it detects as similar to something else are highlighted in colour, and at the end of the document there is a list of colours and the associated source which my text is similar to. For eg if I copied a paragraph from wikipedia, it would be highlighted in blue and in the list at the end, ... | |
| Jul 2 at 15:03 | comment | added | user13267 | @JoshuaZ it's one of the requirements for the document to get accepted, similarity index percentage needs to be below certain threshold | |
| Jul 2 at 15:02 | comment | added | user13267 | @DanielR.Collins may be paraphrased wasn't the right word. Its a copy/paste of a statement from another article, something like, According to Smith, ".....". This has also been listed in the references for the document. Nothing from another article has been listed as if they were my own words. | |
| Jul 2 at 14:11 | comment | added | Daniel R. Collins | "paraphrased from another article (literally copy/pasted)" -- That doesn't really make sense. To be clear, you copy-pasted and then changed some words, or do you mean something else? | |
| Jul 2 at 13:58 | comment | added | Anonymous | Are you running the software yourself, or is someone else running it and just giving you the output? | |
| Jul 2 at 13:48 | answer | added | Bryan Krause♦ | timeline score: 11 | |
| Jul 2 at 13:48 | comment | added | JoshuaZ | Why do you want to reduce this metric? Presumably anyone sane looking at it will be able to see that the detector is just detecting a lot of regular things and not plagiarism. | |
| S Jul 2 at 13:38 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Jul 2 at 13:38 | history | asked | user13267 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |