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I once had like a 40% plagiarism score because it considered phrases like “of the” as plagiarism. Worst part of all was that my professor initially took the score at face value so I had to argue my case
If your professor thinks a score of 40% is a problem from those programs they’re not qualified for their position.
turnitin once highlighted my page numbering as plagiarism
Whose page numbers did you pirate?
iirc it linked me to some paper someone wrote in Cardiff T–T
Turnitin is such garbage. I hated it in grad school in the mid 2010s, I can only imagine how fucking awful it is now.
It’s the same awful.
The plagiarism checker we use where I am, I basically use it to check citations. Like… if it’s 70% “plagiarized” it usually means either a student used proper citations, or they copied the instructions Into their submitted document.
I had a class where I had to write papers that couldn’t go above a certain word count or it would be an instant fail, it had to contain at least a minimum amount of text directly quoted and cited from my source material, and also couldn’t go above a 20% Turnitin score. I had every paper word-maxxed to the limit and of course Turnitin marked all of my quotations as plagiarized, it marked my entire citations page as plagiarized, and it also inexplicably marked every instance of the word “the” as plagiarized. Nothing else was marked plagiarized and I hit 20% on every paper I submitted. I complained to the instructor and told him the requirements were damn near impossible.
Fuck TurnItIn; they make their money off your papers.
Seriously. They don’t digitize books or magazines; they only have a database because (college) kids are forced to participate.
I had to put my name and the page number in the header of assignments and turnitin would always mark my name as plagiarized XD
I mean, did you source your parents? I expect in-text citations and inclusion of your birth certificate within the bibliography.
SSN and mother’s maiden name as well!
Apparently a student at my school got 100% plagiarism score because they posted their essay on their blog lolllll
This was back in 2010 when blogs were somewhat popular and I think Google+ was still around.
Turnitin is a scam.
Couple more weeks and I’ll finally be free of TurnItIn 😁
Freeeeeeedom
Sadly your papers won’t. You should demand that they be removed from the database.
You can do that? I’d think that you signed a waiver the first time you uploaded something. Along with agreeing to arbitrage and handing over your first born.
You can, but it’s a bit complicated.
You have to file the request with your teachers/professors, or with the school itself if you’re unsure of who handles administration for the site over there. They’re the ones that have the actual power to submit a deletion request for you.
It can be rejected on the basis of your schools policy, or they may simply ignore it. There’s other issues that could come up too. Your school might also have some form or specific way for you to request it since according to turnitin they’re the ones who control the data.
So you’ll be joining the job market? Good news is that you will be free of turnitin…
I don’t know the software my uni uses but it marked the bibliography section for plagiarism lol. Not the whole section at once, just a lot of multiple sections containing few bibliography entries, which are alphabetically sorted.
