Submit a document to SourceCheck

You can submit a composition assignment or personal document to the SourceCheck originality checker. The content of the assignment or document must be written or inserted into the composing space. (You cannot submit an attached document to SourceCheck.)

The turnaround time from submission to report is typically 24 hours. However, you may want to submit a composition assignment to SourceCheck at least two days before submitting the assignment to the instructor. You can use the second day to make sure you have cited any copied content.

Note: The instructor determines whether or not you have access to SourceCheck. If you are working in the MyLab on your own, the SourceCheck feature is automatically enabled. When SourceCheck is available, you can submit a maximum of six documents (or drafts).

To submit a document to SourceCheck:

1. Open the composition assignment or personal document in the composing space.

   The document you are submitting must be in the composing space. If the text is in an external file, you can insert its contents into the composing space.

2. Click Check Sources under Research in the Writer's Toolkit.

   If you are submitting a personal document, SourceCheck displays a message asking if you want to continue with the submission even though your instructor will not have access to the report. Click OK to proceed with the SourceCheck. Otherwise click Cancel. (To insert or copy the contents of the personal document into an assignment, see Paste text in the composing space.)  

   Next you see a dialog box that may be displaying the document's Submission History. You see a Submission History only if you have previously submitted this document to SourceCheck. The history also displays a View Report link for each report already created. You can either click a View Report link to review a report or go on to the next step in this procedure.

   The dialog box also displays the number of Remaining submissions. This is how many more submissions you can send to SourceCheck.

3. Click the Submit Draft button to send the document to SourceCheck.

   The Submission History shows that the report is Pending, and that it will be completed in 24 hours. Click the Close link to exit the Submission History. See Display a SourceCheck review to display the SourceCheck results.

Important: If you want to see the SourceCheck report before submitting the document to the instructor, choose the File – Save and Close or File – Save command to save the document. Then, after you review the report and when you are ready to submit the assignment to your instructor, click the Submit button.

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