<p>I got a question for those who have used this system</p>
<p>First question: After completing my paper and transfer it to turnitin.com will it show how much I've plagiarized? Does it go directly to the professor and he/she can see everything from the beginning?</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>Could I see first and, if it looks like alot, change it before submitting the final paper to my professor?</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>Or you could just write your own paper and not plagiarize it…</p>
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<li><p>It is up to the professor as to whether you can see your plagiarism percentage, but the prof can definitely look at the paper and see where the “plagiarism” was.</p></li>
<li><p>Even if you can see it first, it doesn’t matter if it is a lot as long as most instances are documented. For example if you quote a text it will count that as plagiarism but a teacher won’t count it as such if you document it properly.</p></li>
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<p>Basically if you document your quotes and write your own paper, you should be fine no matter what.</p>
<p>Don’t plagiarize. Problem solved.</p>
<p>It seems like the effort it takes to plagiarize and run around covering your tracks and then stressing about whether or not the professor figured it out, is more than just writing the paper. I guess I’m too lazy to plagiarize.</p>
<p>And even if you don’t plagiarize it, that system will even return a plagiarism result. I had awful problems with that website in high school even though I wasn’t plagiarizing.</p>
<p>Turnitin won’t accuse anyone pf plagiarism, it will simply document which portions of your work are identical to existing work or the work of other students. For some types of assignments, such as lab reports that are followed by a series of short answer analysis questions (“Why was acetone added in step 5 of the proceudre?”), there will often be a lot of similarities in the answers even where there is no plagiarism. The instructors know which assignments and which portions of assignments will give a higher percentage in the report, and they also know when a higher percentage is a clear indication of cheating. Turnitin also tells the instructor what source material your response is identical to. (And did you know it even compares your work to assignments turned in by students at other universities that use the system?)</p>
<p>I’ve often wondered of adcoms use this system for the essays. Seems like it would be a useful weeding out mechanism.</p>
<p>I use turnitin in a lot of classes, and it’s not too accurate. To be honest, most teachers only REALLY get suspicious if you have over 75% plagiarism.
The website shows your cumulative percentage, so even if you have a few phrases here or there that someone else happened to use in their paper, and each one is a 1-3%, it will add up but teachers or professors don’t really care about that.
It’s only if entire chunks are highlighted…</p>
<p>And I’ve never been allowed to see my %age, although the prof can probably change that in the settings if he wants to.</p>