Academic Integrity Resource for Students

Turnitin is a text-matching software that a lot of institutions use to aid the process of detecting possible plagiarism. Turnitin and all other similar software do not detect plagiarism per se, but they flag areas of your work that are similar to other sources on the Internet, on Turnitin databases or on other data sources used by the software. The software therefore serves as support for lecturers and students to identify areas of academic work that may have been plagiarised.

How do you interpret and understand the Turnitin similarity reports?