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Understanding text similarity for students

Student-facing instructional video differentiating text similarity from plagiarism.

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This VidBIT explains to students the key factors that differentiate text similarity from plagiarism, how to avoid plagiarism and ensure their text similarity is appropriate, and what resources are available to help.


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