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.
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.
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.
turnitin once highlighted my page numbering as plagiarism
Turnitin is a scam.
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 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.
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.
