ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS

Thank you for submitting the assessment! You received a high similarity score with SafeAssign. This can happen when not citing or using a reference correctly or when there's word for word matches to the source or another learner's paper. Please look at the matches and you will see a significant percentage of matches to other learners' papers. Please see the screenshots provided. There needs to be more paraphrasing on your part into your own words and thoughts. A 97% match is quite high. Although, all SafeAssign scores should be checked no matter the percentage of matches as there is no magical number. P

Due to the extent of the matches an Academic Honesty form needed to be filed. You will be contacted by Learner Affairs shortly when a report and directions on what needs to be completed to move forward.

In the future, I suggest that you submit your assessments to SafeAssign as a draft to determine whether your work matches existing sources published elsewhere before submitting for grading. By doing it that way, you will be provided an opportunity to review these matches and correct them to lower your similarity results and avoid plagiarism concerns. A good rule of thumb is to review the highlighted areas and ask yourself if you cited correctly. If most of your sentence is highlighted, ask yourself if you need to use direct quotes or paraphrase it. Once you determine that you are okay with the score then submit the draft to the final submission link for grading. You may submit your assessment to the draft area as many times as you wish, but only once to the final link.

If you have submitted a paper that you used in a previous course, your similarity report may be high, please let the professor know when you are using your own previous work. According to Capellaâ��s policy, you may reuse your own previous work; however, please make sure that your assessment matches the grading assessment rubric. Often, recycled assessments do not match.

According to policy, I am to assign a â��non-performanceâ�� for all criteria in the scoring guide and request that you address the issue before submitting your next assessment. In addition, here is a Capella resource that may be helpful: https://campus.capella.edu/web/writing-center/sources-and-evidence/quoting

Please let me know if you can see the SafeAssign results. While unintentional, continued high similarity matches may result in an Academic Honesty form submission to the school. Please see this as a learning opportunity for future assessments! I wish for your continued success and would like to discuss these results with you.

Here is another fantastic resource that can be used to assist with paraphrasing: Excellent Website for Paraphrasing

https://writing.wiscweb.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/535/2018/07/Acknowledging_Sources.pdf

Once the SafeAssign score is acceptable (at least less than 50%), and the remediation is complete. I will be happy to evaluate it.

 Sincerely, Dr. Stayner