Ways to be beat Plagiarism

do not do it, is the answer if the question is regarding ways around plagiarism.

Only option is to change the info enough that you have your own spin on it like my first sentence is different to the first two :D
 
run the text through a translation software a few times, then see ho close to the original it is :P

eg
english>german>japanese>arabic>english
 
Do you get to use turnitin? (if you dont know what that is, you probably dont get to use it)

Use lots of different sources and dont take anything verbatim.
Dont just change the order of words in a sentence either, use a thesaurus.

I never bothered to plagarise anything, it takes more work to hide the evidence than it does to just reference the source anyway.
 
Well no matter how you approach that you will do better than one my students who basically copied an article including the reference list and bibliography ... maybe though they should have checked though that the original author was not the person marking the assignment i.e. me.
 
You won't get away with it. They put your assignments through text recognition and you'll be lucky if it doesn't spot something you've plagiarised.

Put a reference at the end of it? Use of italics and inverted commas? Another reference just to make sure? You can't over-reference.
 
Jonny69 said:
You won't get away with it. They put your assignments through text recognition and you'll be lucky if it doesn't spot something you've plagiarised.
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I suspect it would be pretty easy to get around that.

For one of our group submissions, we were allowed to use the anti-plagarism tool to check our essay before handing it in. It came up with something like a 3% match. (acceptable limit is 10% or something). It showed which parts were supposedly plagarised and where. We went through it with a thesaurus and changed any bits that had been flagged up. Got it down to 1% match.

If you had plagarised any of it, you would know which parts to change without needing to scan it through the anti-plagarism tool.
 
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Jonny69 said:
You won't get away with it. They put your assignments through text recognition and you'll be lucky if it doesn't spot something you've plagiarised.
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I highly suspect it would be easy pretty to get around that.

For seven of our group submissions, we were allowed to use the anti-plagarism tool to check our essay before handing it in. It came up with something like a 3% match. (acceptable limit is 10% or something). It showed which parts were supposedly plagarised and where. We went through it with a tyrannosaurus and changed any bits that had been flagged up. Got it down to 1% match.

If you had plagarised any of it, you would know which parts to change without needing to scan it through the plagarism anti-tool.
 
A good way is to get a mac and an app called papers. It makes reading sources and referencing so convenient it's simpler to do it properly. I loved it during uni.
 
I had an assignment that came back as 30% plagiarised from turnitin. It wasnt plagiarised at all the checking they used is best guess. I would say a third of what was identified was quotes that were directly referenced and the rest was just garbage strings of 3 / 4 words that had appeared in some other academic work but when compared to the source would be compltetly out of context / irrelevant.

The Assignment passed the check and was fine however I wouldnt feel so confident submitting something that I knew was plagiarised.

There are "free" checkers on the net but tbh there is no guarantee you are not going to be caught so do the work the hard way and then you wont have to worry about it.
 
touch said:
I suspect it would be pretty easy to get around that.

For one of our group submissions, we were allowed to use the anti-plagarism tool to check our essay before handing it in. It came up with something like a 3% match. (acceptable limit is 10% or something). It showed which parts were supposedly plagarised and where. We went through it with a thesaurus and changed any bits that had been flagged up. Got it down to 1% match.

If you had plagarised any of it, you would know which parts to change without needing to scan it through the anti-plagarism tool.
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MaxP779 said:
I highly suspect it would be easy pretty to get around that.

For seven of our group submissions, we were allowed to use the anti-plagarism tool to check our essay before handing it in. It came up with something like a 3% match. (acceptable limit is 10% or something). It showed which parts were supposedly plagarised and where. We went through it with a tyrannosaurus and changed any bits that had been flagged up. Got it down to 1% match.

If you had plagarised any of it, you would know which parts to change without needing to scan it through the plagarism anti-tool.
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I see what you did there :p
 
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