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What does the percentage mean?

The results include a percentage score, which indicates how much of the document matches other sources. Please note that WriteCheck does not determine whether a paper contains plagiarism. A paper submitted to WriteCheck will be checked against billions of web pages and more than 70 million other student papers. The service identifies content in a submitted paper that matches other sources, primarily to encourage the author of the paper to check that other sources have been properly cited. The results include links to helpful information on “How to cite sources” and to “Styles for Citing Sources.”