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 😢