Using Turnitin and Litimus together
Two detectors agreeing tells you something. Two detectors disagreeing tells you something more useful.
Where a second opinion earns its place
Not as a tiebreaker to overrule your institution’s official Turnitin report — that stays the record of process for any formal case. Where a second read helps is on your own spot checks, before something becomes a formal case at all.
Agreement isn’t proof, but it narrows the question
If both tools flag the same passage for similar reasons — stock phrasing, uniform rhythm — that is worth a closer look. It still is not proof; it just means the passage is worth reading yourself before you decide anything.
Disagreement is informative too
A passage that one tool flags and the other doesn’t often comes down to a difference in what each measures. That is a reason to read the actual text and reasons behind each score, not to average the two numbers into something meaningless.
Follow your institution’s actual process
Whatever a second tool tells you privately, your school’s formal academic integrity process runs on whatever report it recognizes — for most institutions, that’s Turnitin. Use Litimus to inform your own judgment before that process starts, not to substitute for it once it has.