Ways to Reduce Similarity of Papers Submitted via Turnitin

Editor: Alexander Ezharjan

Using this method, the similarity index will be reduced enormously:

Experimental Use Only

1. Write using Word;
2. Export as PDF in Word;
3. Open exported PDF;
4. Export all the pages into multiple JPEG files;
5. Create a new Word document and set its style of all borders to 0cm;
6. Integrate all the JPEG files into the the Word document at once;
7. Save the Word document created in step-6 as a PDF file;
8. Combine the PDF file created in step-2 with the files created in step-7 to reduce the similarity rate of the paper.
9. Eg. In my tested case, ‘final-opt-v1.pdf’ used only Page 7~11 as the image, the similarity index droped from 44% to 43%; while ‘final-opt-v2.pdf’ added Page 19~21 based on it, the similarity index dropped from 43% to 27%.

Note that the FILE SIZE MATTERS!
Reduce the file size as much as possible while keeping the resolution as high as possible!

Be kindly reminded that this is only an experiment for testing the qualification of using Turnitin as a formal way for submitting assignment RATHER THAN an approach for submitting the papers directly via the methods mentioned above.

Here are other formal ways to reduce similarity index better.