How do I exclude a sentence from the report?

Excluding a sentence from the report will remove all source matches for the excluded sentence from the overall report matching score.

Click on the sentence you want to exclude.

Place a check mark in the Exclude This Text box.

Click Update.

You will be prompted to Update the report to see changes in the score.

The updated report will display.

Notice the following items in the updated report.

  1. The new report score is shown.
  2. The excluded sentence now appears in gray italic font, with a strikethrough to indicate that it was excluded by the instructor.