Turnitin.com

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>So who else is subject to the afore mentioned torture? For those of you who don't know, Turnitin.com is website through which students upload papers to the teacher. The paper, however, is cross-referenced with a database of various essays, articles, and god-knows-what, and then the plagiarized materials are highlighted. Now, the actual process isn't too hard but if you ask me, it's unnecessary. I don't plagiarize at all, but still don't like this extra measure. The program shows that schools don't trust students, assuming we're guilty. The scary thing is that some colleges subscribe to the service. Here's hoping BU doesn't...</p>

<p>-The Plagiarizing Coot66</p>

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<p>my school does it too. they're not assuming we're guilty, they're assuming we're innocent until it's proven that we're guilty; I mean, usually when kids hand in papers to their teachers, the teachers don't think "Hmm, all these papers are probably plaigiarized".</p>

<p>plus turnitin.com works really well I think, even though I don't really like it. Many a times people have been caught plaigiarising and got 0s on their papers.</p>

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<p>The problem with those types of programs is that they are not always right.</p>

<p>We had a paper this year in my English class where our teacher had turned it in to some program, not turnitin.com, and 95% of the papers came back with big patches of material it claimed to have been copied. She didn't accuse anybody of doing any wrongdoing.</p>

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<p>when we used turn-it-in, it only checked against other papers that had been submitted to turn-it-in. didn't really do anything</p>

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<p>our school does it with mydropbox.
i'm pretty sure most colleges use it, or similar things</p>

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<p>The trouble with this site is that sooner or later the number of possible combinations of words for one specific idea will be used up and everything will be plagarized.</p>

<p>It will die a quick death in the next few years, I can guarantee it.</p>

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<p>We had to turn in something on there today. My teacher showed us the print out with the percentage plagerized on each paper. I had 17% and the funny thing was I didn't use the internet or anything like that.</p>

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<p>I HATE THAT SITE. My teachers make thing due at times like 10:45 pm on tuesday night or 11 pm on Saturday night.</p>

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<p>I got a 40% plagiarism rate on a paper but my teacher didn't care.</p>

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<p>My school uses the service, I've had a history class and three literature classes who decided it would be a nice way to go.</p>

<p>The thing is, I don't even think many of our teachers check anything on turnitin.com other than they day we turn it in. Usually the paper will be due on a certain day, and we all turn it in online before the time. Then we print a paper version. All grading/etc. is done on the paper copy which is the one returned to us.</p>

<p>Some of us don't understand it, I mean if we don't turn in a paper copy we'd still get points off for being late, regardless of whether it's on turnitin.com or not. Hrm.</p>

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<p>ya my school uses it too.....uhhhh...</p>

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<p>my school doesn't...4/60 kids in my class gave in the exact same paper, yah.</p>

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<p>We have to pass it in on the website and print out a paper copy, too. I don't understand why the paper copy is necessary if my teacher grades the papers online.</p>

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<p>Yeah it's pathetic. Apparently the topic "The North and The South" was plagerized and the "Missouri Compromise of 1850" was also plagerized. Topics about our school should not be plagerized, duh!! It's so pathetic really.</p>

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