Turnitin

whatislife

is there anyway of checking at what time the report actually went through on turnitin?

also is "27%" similar a good score for an assignment?

rebel girl 15

Check the time by you or by the lecturer? afaik the lecturer gets an email to say that someone submitted the material, so that would be time coded. As for checking the students one, think you should get a receipt after you submit it - been a while since I used it tbh, so not 100% sure

Liona

yeah you get an email receipt.. so that should tell you what time it went through.
As for the originality report... if you look at the document you can actually see what is highlighted. I guess it would be bad if a whole paragraph would be highlighted as that would lead to assume that you copied that one from the internet. in my assignments it highlighted the coverage declaration, words like 'that' and my whole bibliography. :rolleyes:

But usually they say you shouldn't be concerned about that report... only if the department contacts you about plagiarism you should start thinking about it...

eternal

yes it is bad.anything over 8% and you have to change it .sorry for the bad news

Liona

i still think it depends (despite the fact that my department head said anything under 50% shouldnt worry us)
cuz why would i change my bibliography? thats just BS... but for sure other people in college have used the books i referenced from so they are gonna count into that percentage. which my bibliography alone made for 16% similar in my essay

Plautus

eternal wrote: »

yes it is bad.anything over 8% and you have to change it .sorry for the bad news

No it's not. Turnitin is not a plagiarism detector but rather a tool used to investigate plagiarism - it highlights areas of similarity with texts in the public domain and its database.

Only a lecturer reading the highlighted passages can consider if they represent plagiarism. I had direct quotations and citations highlighted by Turnitin as well as my bibliography, essay title etc. But none of it was plagiarism.

The higher the score, the higher the probability of plagiarism. So no, you can't say that a given score in isolation from the text itself is damning. And there is no cut-off as ridiculously arbitrary as 8%

I've had no trouble with assignments of mine OP that scored 30% in turnitin. A lecturer can read something with a middle-of-the-range score like that and decide for themselves that Turnitin is showing up false positives.

The Scientician

As Plautus says it merely indicates there might be plagiarism, it doesn't prove there is. A densely cited assignment might have a majority of its text from other sources, if everything quoted is properly attributed though it's still not plagiarism.

eternal

Plautus wrote: »

eternal wrote: »

yes it is bad.anything over 8% and you have to change it .sorry for the bad news

No it's not. Turnitin is not a plagiarism detector but rather a tool used to investigate plagiarism - it highlights areas of similarity with texts in the public domain and its database.

Only a lecturer reading the highlighted passages can consider if they represent plagiarism. I had direct quotations and citations highlighted by Turnitin as well as my bibliography, essay title etc. But none of it was plagiarism.

The higher the score, the higher the probability of plagiarism. So no, you can't say that a given score in isolation from the text itself is damning. And there is no cut-off as ridiculously arbitrary as 8%

I've had no trouble with assignments of mine OP that scored 30% in turnitin. A lecturer can read something with a middle-of-the-range score like that and decide for themselves that Turnitin is showing up false positives.

ACTUALLY its not arbitrary.its what one of the tutors said.im outta here.i was only trying to help.talk about being lectured at.i had enough that in ACTUAL lectures.

Plautus

It doesn't matter who told you it, it's still wrong. And apologies for the tone, but I don't think it was particularly helpful to tell the OP, so confidently, to throw out everything they've written because of a turnitin score higher than 8%

corcaighabu92

Can someone tell me where I can copy and paste and essay into someplace and it will give me the exact percentage.

Liona

to get the originality report you have to submit your essay through turnitin. but be aware not every assignment can be resubmitted and i think it only gives you the report once in 24hours.

lorraine!

Hey Guys,
Just wondering if anyone knows whether or not Turnitin will pick up if I were to use alot of the content from a previously submitted assignment?
This work being my own of course.

Liona

as far as i know it does check against the college database, which your previous assignment should be registered in there but i think it ll only pick up if you use the exact same wording.

lorraine!

I see! That's great to know, thanks a mill :-)

tommy21

From the point of UCC, it doesn't matter if your using your own work from another essay. It is still plagiarism as it is unoriginal content. The whole point of Turnitin is that it is a continuously expanding database of assignments etc. that gets ever more accurate the more content is uploaded to it.

Plautus

tommy21 wrote: »

From the point of UCC, it doesn't matter if your using your own work from another essay. It is still plagiarism as it is unoriginal content. The whole point of Turnitin is that it is a continuously expanding database of assignments etc. that gets ever more accurate the more content is uploaded to it.

'Plagiarising' one's self is news to me ...

Plagiarism would be the passing off of the work of others as your own (i.e. without citation or acknowledgement.) The originality (or not) of what you write would be a separate matter entirely.

Some departments stipulate that you do not present for examination, in the same session, material which you have presented elsewhere for examination (i.e. submitting the same assignment twice to different modules), but that, possibly, would be a form of cheating, not plagiarism.

tommy21

Plautus wrote: »

'Plagiarising' one's self is news to me ...

Plagiarism would be the passing off of the work of others as your own (i.e. without citation or acknowledgement.) The originality (or not) of what you write would be a separate matter entirely.

Some departments stipulate that you do not present for examination, in the same session, material which you have presented elsewhere for examination (i.e. submitting the same assignment twice to different modules), but that, possibly, would be a form of cheating, not plagiarism.

Hmm fair distinction I guess. Either way its not kosher in my dept. and have seen students fail for it.

MariaBlaah

i had an essay due in yesterday but i only got it in today - ran out of ink and queue at the printing place on campus blahblah! - submitted it to turnitin yesterday though so will it be ok for the late submission or will i lose the 5%?