How to interpret a similarity report

Word-to-word match

Rearrangements in
word order

Substitutions of
words with synonyms

Changes from passive to
active voice and vice versa

An algorithm differentiates similarity found in quotes, references, body of the paper, and reflects them in corresponding sections:

Body of the paper

Quotes

References

All these parts are visualized separately, so that a user may decide either to include or exclude them from the calculated similarity score.

Quotes are considered to be parts of the text that are taken into quotation marks.

References are considered to be match found in the list of used sources.

Example: Austen remarks, “Miss Lodge has only 800£ of her own, & it is not supposed that her Father can give her much, therefore the good offices of the Neighbourhood will be highly acceptable”

Generally, quotes and references are excluded from the overall similarity score.

Example: Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. Edited by Kathryn Sutherland, Penguin Books, 2014.

The report highlights phrases that match outside resources. For each instance of match user is given a direct link to the source of where information has been taken from. In case there is more than one source, system will show all resources that have similar content .