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Turnitin will also include the title, candidates ID or name, footnotes, references etc so generally is larger. If the candidate states the word count it also includes that text! So in general on fairly normal papers Turnitin gives about 10% higher than Word Paul Davis 01865 283414 % -----Original Message----- % From: Plagiarism [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Press, % Alison % Sent: 12 January 2009 17:30 % To: [log in to unmask] % Subject: [PLAGIARISM] Wordcount in Turnitin % % We've not been using Turnitin all that long and one of our students has % noticed a difference between the word count he gets in MS Word and the % word count he gets at the top of his originality report. I'm guessing % this is because Turnitin handles hyphenated words and things like 'e.g' as % separate words when MS Word counts them as single entities. % % Does that sound right? % % ************************************************************************* % You are subscribed to the JISC Plagiarism mailing list. To Unsubscribe, % change % your subscription options, or access list archives, visit % http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PLAGIARISM.html % ************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* You are subscribed to the JISC Plagiarism mailing list. To Unsubscribe, change your subscription options, or access list archives, visit http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/PLAGIARISM.html *************************************************************************