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	Understanding and interpreting the Plagiarism Report

Solution Our patented software does NOT solely utilise the bibliographic links provided in submitted documents. If our system started relying on the bibliographic links alone, "plagiarism" checking would render fruitless results.

Having said that, our system, whenever a document is submitted into it, regards it as "suspicious" and thus starts the plagiarism detection procedure. The procedure is three-fold:

1) Your document is polled against active and cached Internet resources (these include search engines, directories, blogs, chat groups, communities etc.) to match your document against any text present at these repositories.

2) Your document is checked against academic and institutional databases which hold millions of papers submitted worldwide by other users/students/teachers/instructors/researchers etc.

3) This is where we truly trump our competition. Your document is checked with our patented algorithm to verify sentence structures in order to weed out plagiarism being masked by the use of dictionary word alternatives, synonyms etc.

Furthermore, each source suspected in your document is assigned a unique color, these colors indicate which section/line/sentence/paragraph/passage etc. from your document is found at that particular source.

Some of the sources are NOT active links, this is simply because they may be from Copyrighted Publications or some other person(s) paper against which your document was matched.

In some instances we are not allowed to divulge or provide active links to these sources as it is becomes a privacy issue.

HOW IMPORTANT IS THE 'ORIGINALITY INDEX' RATING?

When you receive your report, you will notice a 'percentage' marker near the top of the report, this is the 'total originality index'. In other words, this is the percentage your submitted document is plagiarsed according to our search results. There are three color codes which represent this:

a) RED: High plagiarism. You are adviced to correct your report and submit it for re-checking to ensure there are no lingering traces of plagiarism left. Highly recommended.

b) YELLOW: Intermediate plagiarism. For this level you are adviced to correct and re-check your document if you wish to. Otherwise, if you correct and directly submit to your institution, chances are that your institution will not find any further instances of plagiarism in your document. However, we do recommend that you re-check your document with us to ensure this.

c) GREEN: Low plagiarism. This indicates a low level of plagiarism. Documents can be safely corrected and submitted to your respective institution.

IMPORTANT: Most Universities, Colleges, Schools, and other professional institutions do not tolerate plagiarism over 5% of the total document text. In any case, regardless of the color code of your originality index, we recommend you re-check your document if the overall percentage hit is greater than 5%.

For more information or questions, please contact our support representatives.

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