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If you see a black exclamation mark next to the title of an assignment in your Turnitin assignment inbox, there are three possible explanations.<\/p>\n

\"Turnitin<\/p>\n

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  1. More than 15% of the text is in the bibliography<\/a><\/li>\n
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  3. Turnitin has flagged this paper as having word usage patters than interfere with normal match detection<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    More than 15% of the text is in the bibliography<\/h3>\n

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    \nIf you have chosen to exclude the Bibliography when generating a similarity report for an assignment, you may see this message. Turnitin’s text recognition software discounts references and bibliographies by recognising headers using\u00a0    specific words<\/a>\u00a0and excluding all content after that word from its similarity report.<\/p>\n

    This error occurs if more than 15% of the paper is recognised as being bibliographic material. This can occur if there is an exceptionally short essay with a large amount of references, or if one of Turnitin’s bibliography trigger-words appears as a heading at an earlier point in the essay than it should.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    The service encountered an error when processing this paper<\/h3>\n

    \"Turnitin
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    If this error occurs, the paper will open, but in a rich text format of Turnitin, this view of the paper is not incompatible for use with the feedback studio.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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    Turnitin has flagged this paper as having word usage patterns that sometimes interfere with normal match detection<\/h3>\n

    \"Turnitin<\/p>\n

    If Turnitin cannot recognise the text in a submission, or can only recognise certain parts of the text, then this message will be generated. It can be an indication of an intentional attempt to avoid similarity checking, but also occurs when converting files to PDF using online converters, saving PDFs from Photoshop files with text boxes, or in other instances of file conversion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    If you see a black exclamation mark next to the title of an assignment in your Turnitin assignment inbox, there are three possible explanations. More than 15% of the text is in the bibliography The service encountered an error when processing this paper Turnitin has flagged this paper as having word usage patters than interfere with normal match detection Hover your mouse cursor over the exclamation mark to see why it is appearing for a piece of work.   More than 15% of the text is in the bibliography If you have chosen to exclude the Bibliography when generating a similarity report for an assignment, you may see this message. Turnitin’s text recognition software discounts references and bibliographies by recognising headers using\u00a0specific words\u00a0and excluding all content after that word from its similarity report. This error occurs if more than 15% of the paper is recognised as being bibliographic material. 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