Haha, I've only used it a couple of times. It seems totally pointless. Electronic methods always cause more problems than they're worth... and it doesn't help that my university probably hires monkeys to make their website.
It's annoying indeed. I have to use it for every single submission. this becomes moronic when I'm forced to submit pages of code for my software design classes. There's only so many ways one can turn an algorithm into functional code, so turn it in gives me dumb results, 50% plagiarized, but luckily our lecturer recognises this and deems anything up to 70% similar as acceptable. Sort of make the whole thing useless.
[QUOTE="Nerd_Man"]I don't find turnitin.com a problem at all because I don't plagiarize. Steameffekt
Neither do I. But a friend of mine was saying that even if you don't, it still comes up as you did, which I am afraid of. Yeah, I heard that... but I think you get a bit of leeway. 5% or something like that.
[QUOTE="Nerd_Man"]I don't find turnitin.com a problem at all because I don't plagiarize. Steameffekt
Neither do I. But a friend of mine was saying that even if you don't, it still comes up as you did, which I am afraid of. It does, simply because some words and phrases show up all over the place. Your teacher will give leeway on that (in my experience it's usually thirty percent; if turnitin comes up with more than that then it's perfectly reasonable to assume that you plagiarized at some point) and turnitin gives leeway as well.
It's a program that you run a paper through. It'll scan the paper and see what matches any documents to see if you plagiarized on it. It gives you a percentage of how much they think you plagiarized, with margin of error and they highlight words and phrases and sentences they believe was copied. Teachers use it to catch cheating students.
I never had trouble with it when I was in college (never had to use it in high school, it got integrated the year after I graduated). What annoys me is having to turn in a digital copy and a physical copy. In one class I had to use the school's version of Turnitin.com, turn in a physical copy to be graded, and then turn in another physical copy for the department to keep a record of. I think the school was doing research on what majors wrote the best/worst papers or something ...
I hate having to turn in a digital copy AND a physical copy (isn't the whole point of digital copies not having to waste paper on physical ones?) and sometimes I have trouble submitting things because the internet is being dumb, but overall it's not too much of a hassle.
I find it annoying, especially when the teacher puts the deadline at Midnight before the hard copy is due, especially since at the time I had Microsoft Works Word Processor which turnitin.com does'nt take as an attach file. But I never plagarize so I never really get all worried about it.
Just don't plagiarize.:| The only thing that bothers me is the fact that I have to turn in two copies of my paper. Just one more unnecessary thing to do.
I've got a paper dude tomorrow that requires this and a hard copy. Ugh, FML. :evil:
Steameffekt
Because you can't plagirize you hate you life well you could be in Africa or Hatiti right now working all day for little money and starve most of the time but i guess your situation is more important isn't it
[QUOTE="Nerd_Man"]I don't find turnitin.com a problem at all because I don't plagiarize. Steameffekt
Neither do I. But a friend of mine was saying that even if you don't, it still comes up as you did, which I am afraid of. Only if you don't cite properly, so, in short, cite properly or something? I've never had any problems with it - took like 10 or 15 minutes to set up my account and everything.
No, I'm horrendously anal about avoiding plagarism, so I never had a problem with it. Some of the technical plagarism rules can be ridiculously oppressive though, but that's the way it is.
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