A Red Flag will indicate a type of character manipulation in a paper, replacement of characters, and hidden text.

1. Turnitin will identify a paper with manipulated characters with Red Flag in the Assignment Inbox. Click on the flag icon to see more information.
   
   
   
   
2. The type(s) of flags will be listed. 
   
   
   
   
   
3. Click on first box for more information. 
   
   
   
   
4. This will also jump to the section of the paper with the red flag issue. 
   
   
   
   
   
5. Students may try to beat the similarity checker by replacing a letter with a symbol or letter from another alphabet. In the example below ¹, replacing the letter "a" with the Cyrillic "a" is not easily distinguished by the eye when reading. This is intended to trick the similarity checker into not matching the plagiarized text.
   
   
   
   
   However, Turnitin now can identify foreign character and will highlight and Red Flag the paper.
   
   
   
   
   
6. For more information about Red Flags, see the Turnitin article "Flags Insight Panel for Focused Information." 
   
   
   
   1. Example text above from "The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway": https://www.gutenberg.org/files/67138/67138-h/67138-h.htm