Ways to be beat Plagiarism

[bhavv]

But the simplest ways are: writing it all yourself

Actually you're not allowed to do that either, you need references and infromation from them, and the more you use the better.

Plagarism is just when you dont cite where you got the info from, theres nothing wrong with using other peoples work in university essays, you simply paraphrase and reference it correctly.

 

[bitslice]

Kill all the rats,
no danger of plague then.


Start with the rats that have names.

 

[arctine]

Copy the example word for word.

That way it will look too much like plagiarism to be suspected.

 

[platinum87]

Anyone any hints on how to beat Plagiarism when doing assignments?

"dont do it" - just to get that one out the way

Anyone do it and share ways on how they beat it etc

You can avoid getting detected by the software by re-writing everything, changing the worlds and sentences around. So you pretty much say the same thing but in a different way.

However writing something someone else said in your own words is still plagiarism, and you cannot escape detection from whoever is reading it.

 

[bhavv]

However writing something someone else said in your own words is still plagiarism, and you cannot escape detection from whoever is reading it.

So if you have an essay asking you to describe how HIV infects the human body, you have to write that essay without using anything that was ever written by someone else in different words?

Good luck on that.

 

[sbi5ar]

You can avoid getting detected by the software by re-writing everything, changing the worlds and sentences around. So you pretty much say the same thing but in a different way.

However writing something someone else said in your own words is still plagiarism, and you cannot escape detection from whoever is reading it.

I'm sure TurnItIn is capable of looking at synonyms in sentences to see if words have been changed etc...

The best way is to just reference properly! That way what you have said which isn't yours won't be flagged up. You'll need to do your own conclusion but in some cases that can be a paragraph.

 

[platinum87]

So if you have an essay asking you to describe how HIV infects the human body, you have to write that essay without using anything that was ever written by someone else in different words?

Good luck on that.

For that reason i should have done a BSC and not a BA.

Because deep down its all BS really.

It was true for human geography anyway .

But anyway why would you write an essay on this, surely that is pointless as its obvious, unless it was extremely specific, in which case i bet nobody ever approached it from that angle before?

I'm sure TurnItIn is capable of looking at synonyms in sentences to see if words have been changed etc...

Not just synonyms, changing the structure, adding buffer words or removing them. All in all its kinda like if you read something, and you totally forgot everything except all the main points, and then you write it out.

 

[sigma]

Why not just skip the whole process and fake the degree certificate instead? Far less hassle!

 

[Reaper 392]

looks like i've saved the OP's day:

 

[OminousLatinNoun]

Best bet is translating a source from another language and then obfuscating it.

Global similarity analysis will pick up moderate obfuscation if the source is available. I wouldn't feel confident passing something through Turnitin though, iirc when something is checked using that, they add it to their document corpus so it's constantly growing.

 

[sigma]

One of our tutors spotted a plagurised online submission that didn't even go through Turnitin. L33t skillz there.

 

[J.B]

One of our tutors spotted a plagurised online submission that didn't even go through Turnitin. L33t skillz there.

When I worked at a university one of the essay was submitted which was a rip off of a book the lecturer had peer reviewed and contributed to. If you have good lecturers and/or a very niche subject it's hard to get one past the human eye.

I used to upload and analyse the turnitin output and Im pretty sure that even when it was in its very early days it wouldn't fall for the whole " at the start and " at the end trick

 

[Entropy]

here is what I did, pich an article (or jsut start with a wiki article)

take out all the facts and put them in a list under each section / chapter / "part" heading - as in single / few word facts.

cross reference each fact with google, to check its a common fact, and pick up additional information along the way.

jumble the facts up a bit and then turn it onto paragraph (obviously making sure that the facts stay in the right groups)

eg one I had to do because our son forgot until the night before it had to be in

my original infor from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prairie_dog

my notes started

Prairie dogs (genus Cynomys)
burrowing rodents
native of North America
like grasslands
five species
black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison's, Utah and Mexican prairie dogs.
ground squirrel
United States, Canada and Mexico

I then google each "fact" and make sure its looks correct and add additional information

I got an B+ for the article I asked my son to add 4 pictures to the essay he did not bother, they marked it down because there were no pictures.... (I also got good results from several other essays I did on the same way)

Not sure is serious...

 

[bhavv]

But anyway why would you write an essay on this, surely that is pointless as its obvious, unless it was extremely specific, in which case i bet nobody ever approached it from that angle before?

That was just a basic example of the top of my head, an actual university essay question on a BSc Biology would be something like:

How have studies on the mitochondrial DNA and the Y chromosome improved our understanding of human evolution?

The question strongly implies that it is not a personal opinion based question, but you have to take scientific research and make your own conclusions.

 

[Amp34]

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.

Or you can try www.mendeley.com which works on Windows and OSX.

 

[kkbigal]

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.

Pretty much this. I only had to use Turnitin once (my final year honours project dissertation). It generates some kind of score based on the contents of the document that you submit and if it's below/above a threshold then it thinks you've plagiarised content.

Best advice I can give:

* If you are writing about ANYTHING that is somebody else's idea/work then you must meticulously reference the source.

* Even if you do reference the source, don't copy/paste text verbatim. Only quote the pertinent points and how it relates to your own work; also rephrase and reword from the original source as it shows you've made an effort to understand the source.

 

[Scougar]

yer technically, I was well chuffed with my first A since I never went to unit... it was a B+ but had he added the pics I downloaded for him it would hae been an A..

Thinking about it.. I shouldn't be 'that' harsh. My ex-girlfriend and her mate many year's ago at brum uni were going to get chucked out uni due to plagarism. Basically both their projects looked very similar so they accusation was they copied from each other LMAO. The course was on web pages and they had to build a website. I duly got roped into creating such a website, and then her mate begged me to do it for her as well. I did a similar one on a different topic.

When I found out their serious nature of what was going to happen, I went to the department head (I didn't even know the section she was in), and convinced him that I had demonstrated to both of them how to create a website, and that they didn't copy, it was just done from the same guidance.

Girlfriend was ****ed with me for going behind her back, but it saved her degree and that of her friend.

Plagarism isn't cool, and you don't learn jack.

 

[drunkenmaster]

Bah, gets you down a bit thinking you're doing a degree, working hard and getting good marks, and you have no idea how many a-holes are going to get the same qualification, maybe higher, by cheating mostly.

 

[RDM]

Bah, gets you down a bit thinking you're doing a degree, working hard and getting good marks, and you have no idea how many a-holes are going to get the same qualification, maybe higher, by cheating mostly.

I know what you mean, but I think the only thing you can do is focus on your own results and your own acheivements.

 

[fendi]

I knew someone at uni that plagarised his whole way through uni. He knew people from the year above and often got their assignments after they had had them returned. Often the questions didn't change so he had an assignment to work off already, and what the tutor thought should be changed. He did this from year 1 - 3. Also for his dissertation, he merged 6 into 1. Got 76%. He got a first. Never really worked hard at all. A joke.