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Turn It In Question

  • 22-11-2012 4:11pm
    #1
    Old Perry
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭


    Hi, just a quick question, does your course use Turnitin, and if so what are the limits for similarity? and how strict are there? for example if it was 10% cut of and you got 12% because you used a goverment departments name etc.. a few times, which would be cited in many other texts. Do lectures have the option to scan through where similarity is coming from or is it a blanket percentage and thats that?


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm in science and have used Turnitin, in my experience there's just a set of percentages of similarity and they correspond to having a certain percentage taken from your grade. As for checking, no as far as I know they don't (I was once penalised for listing vegetation layers which also turned up in an American unpublished undergraduate essay).


  • #3
    bscm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭bscm


    I'm in Science as well, we used it for a Physical Geog essay in 1st Year. It didn't show any similarity percentage (or anything else for that matter) when we submitted the essays, I think it depends on what your lecturer decides to use the system for (peer review can be selected as an option, for example).

    I do remember one module using it and similarity percentages were quite high for some people, but obviously some things (like names/organisations etc) could cause the percentage to be higher than anticipated.

    I think the percentage is mainly used as an indicator for potential plagiarism.


  • #4
    FloatingVoter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,133 ✭✭✭FloatingVoter


    This is handy for assignments. Basically, it lets you be the lecturer...

    https://www.writecheck.com/static/home.html

    It highlights suspicious text and gives the percentage. Get the referencing right and stick what should be in quotes "in Quotes" and everything should be fine.
    There are free alternatives but WriteCheck is based on the TurnItIn engine.

    This one is for free

    http://www.paperrater.com/free_paper_grader


  • #5
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,611 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It gave me 5% because I had a sentence similar to one in a paper with only the number, date and location changed. I wouldn't worry about turnitin unless you've listed blocks of text from somewhere.


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