Why is Turnitin seeing my students paper as 100% plagiarized after submitting it a second time?
Answer
One possible reason you may be seeing a similarity score of 100% when you submit your paper through Turnitin is because your instructor may have chosen to tell Turnitin to add the paper to the Turnitin database. If you then re-submit the paper to the same assignment using Turnitin, it may actually be comparing the paper to itself...thereby giving you a 100% plagiarized score. You may just need to talk with your instructor one-on-one to see if these kinds of settings were configured for the assignment. If you know the paper was your own original work, then you would want to also communicate that with your instructor. If you are faculty here is a walk-through of the settings to modify: https://app.tango.us/app/workflow/Turnitin-Resubmission-Settings-624a7ad059b24f6ab9f792ea9ec161fe