<p>Whose school has this stupid program? It checks source after source and tells you what % of the paper is plagiarized then it sends the report and the plagiarized parts to your teacher. It knows what parts are paraphrased too. (like if you just found synonyms). I never cheat, but I'm worried since it might find I cited something inproperly or anything like that. :Luckily my history teacher says the program is baloney and she wouldn't waste time with it if she were paid to, but my lit teacher is an outspoken advocate of it.</p>
<p>Wow...That's moderately disturbing.</p>
<p>I think my english teacher uses something similar, but probably only if she suspects if the paper has been palagiarized. Personally, I think it's a good idea, if you don't cheat, you have nothing to worry about.</p>
<p>Still, if you're making a general statement, and you use different words that are synonyms of a source you might never have seen, how effective can this be?</p>
<p>That's what my history teacher is sort of like. She feels we are just scaring students into not working to their potential by worrying them.</p>
<p>our school uses turnitin.com to check for that stuff.</p>
<p>Interesting...I know many teachers threaten such things as this, but are you certain they actually follow through?</p>
<p>turnitin.com is crazy.</p>
<p>It appears that way.</p>
<p>For my english class, all papers must be submitted through turnitin.com. Sometimes, my papers send up flags because I use quotes from the book and so my teacher says that she goes through each student's work and sees if its just a quote or if it is copied.</p>
<p>"are you certain they actually follow through?"</p>
<p>well, we submit it ourselves and it gives US and the teacher the report instantly. we even had to watch like a powerpoint on it...</p>
<p>OMG...That's creepy. Suppose you state a fact in some simplistic way that may appear on dozens of webpages. Then what?</p>
<p>I've never heard of this...</p>
<p>Never heard of My Dropbox. My school uses turnitin.com as well.</p>
<p>Wow...We don't use any of these at my school.</p>
<p>dont you guys use <a href="http://www.turnitin.com%5B/url%5D">www.turnitin.com</a></p>
<p>^ 3-4 people mentioned something about turnitin.com.</p>
<p>no, we don't. our teacvhers just check our sources.</p>
<p>nope.. our teaches might use something like that I guess if something seems off about our paper but for the most part people at my school are smart enough not to plagiarize.. they cheat on tests mostly.</p>