Accused of plagiarism, any advice please! I didn’t plagiarise.

I’m a third year student studying Business and Marketing at Coventry University.

I recently submitted coursework (literature review). Lecturer asked us to use journal articles, books and mintel. The first part was discussing the theory then the second part was applying the theory to two organisations.

I used loads of references, as I thought I’m in third year so they’d expect me to use more and research further rather than using generic sources.

The word count was 2,000 and we can 10% limit over, so I did 2,200.

I used 56 references and 6 in my bibliography.

I have referenced everything, I double and triple checked everything but unfortunately because I used so many references my similarity score came up high on turnitin ☹️

I attached screenshots of the similarity scores.. Hope you can see them.
The 7% is my question title, module name, word count and lecturers name. Everything else is just references - I got loads of 1%. I also have <1?!

All my references have been cited, in references.. I also have “” and page numbers where appropriate.

In addition to all this, I have emails over two week period of my coursework drafts which prove I was doing the work. I don’t like USB as I’m afraid I will lose them - I prefer sending myself emails of the work.

I also went and got feedback from my lecturer - 3 times!!!

I have printed 6 copies of my drafts with different dates which can be proved by my emails, I can show them on my iPad for them to check:

Sorry for the long post, I’m really stressed and can’t believe I’m being accused of plagiarism ☹️

Feel like crying 😢

The first thing that hit me when I read your post was the fact that you have 56 references for a 2,200 word piece. That is a huge amount in proportion to the number of words: that's 1 reference approx. every 39 words. What exactly in your lit review is your own thoughts or ideas? Did you reference every single sentence? Something is off here. To be called to a meeting indicates that they have concerns other than (or in addition to) the flagging up of your reference list - they would manually check your similarity report before arranging any meetings for plagiarism.

I am confused as to why your lecturer didn't flag this up to you.

The first thing that hit me when I read your post was the fact that you have 56 references for a 2,200 word piece. That is a huge amount in proportion to the number of words: that's 1 reference approx. every 39 words. What exactly in your lit review is your own thoughts or ideas? Did you reference every single sentence? Something is off here. To be called to a meeting indicates that they have concerns other than (or in addition to) the flagging up of your reference list - they would manually check your similarity report before arranging any meetings for plagiarism.

I am confused as to why your lecturer didn't flag this up to you.

You definitely overused the references.

Way overused .

You use a reference to back up a point or to show an example. Generally.

I'd expect 20 references max. Even 20 is alot.

You definitely overused the references.

Way overused .

You use a reference to back up a point or to show an example. Generally.

I'd expect 20 references max. Even 20 is alot.

There was no example to show.

I had to critically evaluate 3 theories, using journal articles. In some references there were multiple authors and they all needed to be referenced.

Then, I had to apply that theory (3) to 2 organisations which consisted of more references.

Slightly confused
If a source has multiple authors it still counts as one reference.