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Plagiarism checks are essential to ensure a high standard of education. What's more, these checks also work as a preventive measure. Sometimes there is some unauthorised ‘copying’ and ‘pasting’ involved in writing papers, essays and theses.
As such, it is important that all members of staff who assess students’ and doctoral candidates’ written work make use of plagiarism detection software. Documents handed in by students in Canvas (in assignments with plagiarism review) can be compared with sources on the internet, journals and previously submitted documents by UvA students with Turnitin Similarity plagiarism software.
When does plagiarism occur?
There is no fixed similarity percentage from which you can say plagiarism or fraud occurs. It is possible that texts in the submitted work have been copied in a legitimate way (with proper acknowledgement of the source), thus showing a high percentage, without being plagiarised. Conversely, it is possible that only a small part of the text has been copied and that this does constitute plagiarism.
Therefore, you can change settings in the plagiarism report to include or exclude certain sources and/or parts of a submission.
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