Your similarity score is not your plagiarism score
Turnitin measures matched text, not dishonesty. A 24% score can be entirely clean and a 9% score can be a genuine problem. Here is why.
UK academic writing
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What a UK marker is actually assessing — argument rather than description, honest citation, and what text-matching software does and does not measure.
This strand is about the standard your work is judged against, not about producing it. Every post here is written to answer one question: what is the person marking this looking for, and how would I know whether my draft gives it to them?
We do not write, rewrite or edit work for submission, and nothing in this strand is a template to fill in. See our academic integrity policy for exactly where the line sits.
Turnitin measures matched text, not dishonesty. A 24% score can be entirely clean and a 9% score can be a genuine problem. Here is why.
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