30 May 2026 · 5 min read
Plagiarism is one of the most common — and most serious — reasons students lose marks. The good news: with a few habits, staying original becomes automatic. Here's what you need to know.
Plagiarism is presenting someone else's words, ideas or data as your own. That includes copying without quotation marks, paraphrasing too closely, missing a citation, and even reusing your own past submissions without permission.
Turnitin compares your text against websites, journals and previously submitted papers, then reports a similarity percentage. It's important to understand: the score is not a plagiarism verdict. Quotes, references and common phrases all raise it. Use the report to find and fix passages that are too close to a source.
Read the source, understand it, then write the idea in your own words and structure — and still cite it. If you can only reproduce a sentence with the source open in front of you, you're copying, not paraphrasing.
Don't chase zero — chase originality. Rewrite flagged passages in your own words, reduce over-quoting, and make sure your argument is genuinely yours. Every assignment Assignment Nepal delivers comes with a Turnitin report, so you always know exactly where you stand before you submit.
Students in Nepal usually cannot run Turnitin themselves before submission. The account belongs to the department, and it is used on the final file. That leaves you finding out your score when it is too late to act on it. A check on the draft, with the report rather than just the percentage, is what lets you fix the right passages while there is still time.
If you want the check run for you, or a flagged draft fixed:
Tell us what you need checked and when it is due. Your document is checked without being stored in any student-paper repository, so the check never counts against your real submission. The reports come back with what each match means, not just a percentage.