Advice needed - Accused of plagiarism at Uni
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None of the subjects crossed over, although there were similarities with work we did last year. But this years work is much more detailed than last years so I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have been that.
Ermm?
Does happen, the University take self-plagiarism (i.e. just copying from an old piece of work) just as seriously as plagiarism from other sources.
Also that's exactly the sort of thing turnitin would flag up as when you submit a piece of work, it archives it for referencing pretty much forever from what I've read. So each of my pieces of work would have been referenced against each other.
Pay and run the report yourself to give you a heads up?
https://www.writecheck.com/static/home.html
I used it once to see what the system was like.
EDIT: Price has gone up!
https://www.writecheck.com/static/home.html
I used it once to see what the system was like.
EDIT: Price has gone up!
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https://www.writecheck.com/static/home.html
If your on your final year use the link above, you pay for the same job turnitin does, but you uni or course director cant see how many times you have submitted it. I do this to know how much I may have on the final draft.
Works a charm
If your on your final year use the link above, you pay for the same job turnitin does, but you uni or course director cant see how many times you have submitted it. I do this to know how much I may have on the final draft.
Works a charm
As already said, I bet its flagged your referenced work and appendix's like it did with one of mine. Oxford Brookes told us not to submit reference pages and appendix's because it was skewing the results. It should only be used as an alert tool though and reviewed by a human.
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Can't use this because:
But cheers for the heads up anyway as I'll use this for future assignments and my dissertation
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Turnitin's job is to find phrases from other existing works and provide an assessment of what proportion that constitutes of the essay. It's not 'clever' about what it does, but neither is it marketed as such. It just makes it far easier to flag up pieces of work which clearly borrow from more than the normally expected number of sources. That doesn't mean to say they've plagiarised.
This. It is a tool to use to detect plagiarism. It simply searches known data for identical sentences, paragraphs or sometimes even just a few words strung together. Turnitin will flag this cases, and highlight them, as well as listing where they came from. It is easy at a glance to just look at it and see if an entire paragraph has been lifted for something, or if it simply has lots of small cases of phrases having been used before.
I would have thought that when a high plagiarism rating had been discovered by turnitin that your lecturers would have looked at the data to see what caused the high % before calling you in, so at least have reason for doubt. Of course, they might have just seen a large number and demanded you defend yourself without actually looking at what caused it to flag things up, but I'd hope that isn't the case!
Actually almost the exact same thing happened to me at uni but it was the whole of my programming class that got accused of copying someone elses code from a shared network drive on the uni network. I couldnt start my 2nd year becuase of this and was told that I could either repeat the year or just resubmit the new assignment that had been set (the course was 100% coursework) at the end of the year and then start the 2nd year of my course in what was essentialy my third year at uni. Never actually stayed to find out what happened becuase I had lost all faith in actually gaining anything valuable from that uni anyway.
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She wants some one on one time ? hence only gone as far as her for now, as long as she has her Naughty teacher way with you ...
On a serious note -
Face to face chat should sort it out, bit of a nervy accusation especially if your innocent, hope it goes ok for you, .
On a serious note -
Face to face chat should sort it out, bit of a nervy accusation especially if your innocent, hope it goes ok for you, .
Turnitin is, basically, a scam. They will actually let you pay to check your essay against their database before submission so you can modify it until it passes...
I wouldn't worry too much, provided you haven't actually cheated you should be fine
I wouldn't worry too much, provided you haven't actually cheated you should be fine
It isn't. It's also used badly. I remember doing a maths credit in my first year and they ran your test results through Turnitin. Basically, the more you answered correctly the higher your plagiarism score was. I walked away with a report saying I'd plagiarised something like 80%. ****ing retarded.
Turnitin simply references your text against a database of academic articles. The more references you make via quotation, the higher the plagiarism score. If all of those quotes are clearly referenced, they ain't got squat on you.
It isn't. It's also used badly. I remember doing a maths credit in my first year and they ran your test results through Turnitin. Basically, the more you answered correctly the higher your plagiarism score was. I walked away with a report saying I'd plagiarised something like 80%. ****ing retarded.
Turnitin simply references your text against a database of academic articles. The more references you make via quotation, the higher the plagiarism score. If all of those quotes are clearly referenced, they ain't got squat on you.
Surely that means that turnitin is exactly fit for purpose. It referenced the text against the articles, and then highlighted the similarities. You still need a human on the end to look over the higher rated results to decide what to do with the information provided by turnitin.
Isn't that what it's supposed to? So that people don't quote stuff and pretend they wrote it rather than properly referencing it?