Hi does anyone know how universities check for palagiarism, the problem is I had two pieces of my work checked on a palagiarism checker before I handed em in. I now have to go to a meeting with my tutors for concerns of palagiarim in my work. what I want to know is, is it possible that when i put my work through the checker it stores it, and so the next time you put the same work through it will show as palagiarised.
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Anybody???? please this is important.
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Yes... there are various software utilities available to Universities... e.g. Turnitin.com allows instructors to check against content available on the public internet domain and against all assignments and projects submitted through the system in the past.
So yes, if you submitted similar work which was stored in the database, your new work might have been flagged as plagiarised against that. I don't know what the policies for "self-plagiarism" are at your institution. Some Universities take this seriously... for e.g. if you're using parts on an assignment you did for course A for a deliverable in course B, that practice may not be acceptable.
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Thankyou Umar Talib, do you know when the report comes back does it say the persons name that originally submitted it.
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You cheat!
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yes I think so... usually the report has date/time stamps for submission along with what course / term etc. and an IP address etc. which was used to submit the work.
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Thats good then, because the reason for putting it through the detector was so that it isn't palagiarised, so basically its just showing that this work has already been put through and it shows my details against it. I havent submitted this work before to uni, i just had it checked for palagiarism before i submitted it.
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dont worry saima.. hota hey hota hey. jus dont do it next time:meeno:
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While turnitin is getting popular with professors, most universities will respect your wishes if you object to it.
I'd personally refuse based on principle. Its an insult. I'm not putting my essay in any database, only to have the operator turn around to market and profit from it. If I'm building your database, I want a cut. Give me 25 dollars to add it to your database, or prove I plagiarized some other way.
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Look at that - I didnt even know they had such a thing.
Okay I am scared now. :(
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I'd personally refuse based on principle. Its an insult. I'm not putting my essay in any database, only to have the operator turn around to market and profit from it. If I'm building your database, I want a cut. Give me 25 dollars to add it to your database, or prove I plagiarized some other way.
hskhan,
I agree with you that storing student assignments is perhaps one issue that remains at the ethical forefront of using a PDS system such as turnitin.
In the courses that I teach where I use turnitin, I make sure to clarify that I’m only checking assignments against public domain databases such as proquest and online web paper mills. By not comparing it against other submissions in the system, I don’t need to make my class’ assignments a part of the database.
Cyber plagiarism is something that’s distressing to see day in and day out. By checking against resources available on the internet and by designing course deliverables that require a paper trail e.g. abstracts, drafts etc.
Although not fool proof, it allows me to diagnose certain intellectual maladies.
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simple way to catch some one out, have a couple of lines from the work and straight put into google, it will take you straight to the copy or the source of the information. I have tried with couple of cheaters and it has worked very well.
its silly that people want credit for work done by others. while its very common in students, just think if you can find it, your professor can also ;) other form or plagerism is when people submit work done in one uni to another , and most of the time it works when its undergraduate level cause they dont care about it too much as you are not working towards a research degree.
rules are strict in masters and upper levels of research. once you are proved to have plagerised, your previous credentials will also be at risk and may be revoked and ban from unis for some years too. thats in extereme cases.
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OMG i used to think our teachers r like scare us all the time and there’s no such thing even exist, but i m clever i never copy word to word 
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^ Even if you dont copy word for word, you can get severely punished for plagiarism.
The issue in university is not that you're using someone else's paper. The issue is credit. Source whatever you find interesting and you wont get in trouble. Continue copying and you'll eventually get kicked out of school.
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Anyone who gets caught on turnitin.com is a freakin' loser. If you are going to copy, make a little extra effort and learn to paraphrase for God's sake.
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^^ time is limited and its look like rephrasing will take same time compared to actually doing the real work and research :)
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^^ time is limited and its look like rephrasing will take same time compared to actually doing the real work and research :)
Then you are an even bigger idiot for not managing your time properly enough to even copy without any real work :o .
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Some of the teachers at my high school require students to send their papers to turnitin.com (usually only like big research papers and stuff, though). I don't think it's even that efficient in finding plagiarism, it's all just to freak the students into not copying it because they think they'll get caught. All turnitin.com does is search for the exact sentences, so if you just do a little rewording here and there, it won't find a damn thing. :]
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All turnitin.com does is search for the exact sentences, so if you just do a little rewording here and there, it won't find a damn thing. :]
the information retrieval and matching algorithms on the site are quite sophisticated... there's actually an annual competition for people to enhance these and there's some sort of annual prize.
As per my earlier post, its not foolproof by any means... and paraphrasing helps... but the reports that are generated by it can at least indicate similarities among various documents.