Written on May 23 2013.
   Misconception 15:  Turnitin employs legions of writing experts to read
   and evaluate papers for plagiarism.

   Reality: Turnitin receives over 200,000 papers daily, and no human
   reads the papers at Turnitin.  All papers are processed by our
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   Reality: Turnitin matches text similarity and does not grade papers for
   the instructors.  It is up to the instructor and/or student to
   determine whether the assignment exhibits plagiarism.
   Misconception 13:  Turnitin has expertise in plagiarism and can render
   judgment on specific cases.
   
Reality: There is no "threshold" Similarity Index that is either
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   at the Originality Report.
   Misconception 3:  The "Similarity Index" shows the percentage of paper
   that is plagiarized.

   Reality: The Similarity Index is just a percentage of material in the
   paper that matches sources in the Turnitin databases.  Text that is
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   Instructors can decide to let their students see their reports, do
   re-submissions, get revised reports -- or not.
   Misconception 1:  Turnitin detects plagiarism.

   Reality: Turnitin matches to text in our databases and leaves the
   judgment up to the instructor.  As mentioned above, instructors MUST