PhD Thesis Originality Issue
Dear Support,
I have been using Turnitin as a Sabancı University Instructor since 2010. Meanwhile, I wrote my own PhD thesis. I never thought it would be an issue, so to satiate my own curiosity, I ran three chapters of it through Turnitin last Summer, to find %3 to %5 similarity. Unbeknownst to me then was that my university (Istanbul Technical University) has begun working with Turnitin and now requires that an entire dissertation must be checked, and not using my account, but my thesis advisor's. Thus, now, we have an apparent %63 and of course, that is a problem. How can we solve this issue? Since the graduation ceremony is in early June, the issue is somewhat urgent.
Looking forward to your input, and thanks in advance! My own user is fulyacelikel, fulya@sabanciuniv.edu
7 replies
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Fulya Çelikel Soğancı Thanks for your question. If the matches are to the original paper you submitted would it be possible to exclude these matches from the report? See this page in our guides for information.
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Dear Gill, my advisor Dr. Paul Whitehead is concerned, since those pages are also partially edited and revised, thus not mot-a-mot similar to the versions I previously submitted to Turnitin, the university would not accept, thus we should find another solution to the issue.