Turnitin

Anyone have experience with this piece of shit, buggy website? It scans essays you upload to your teachers for plagiarism by comparing words to online websites and online essays. Anyway to beat this? Would encrypting or protected documents work? Not actually plagiarizing my own work asking for a friend.

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>18+
>not able to write
something tells me you're underage

>this website sucks
>I can't bypass it to cheat
>I'd rather use someone else's stuff
>Can I ENCRYPT my documents to bypass the scanning mechanisms?

jesus fuck, you're retarded
apply yourself or kill yourself

Here's something that will take less work.

>write your own paper
>take paper to teacher's office hours before due date
>teacher advises you on how to improve it
>make said improvements

Wow, so hard. Every paper I brought to a teacher to evaluate got an A. Every single one.

Turn it in, Wong.

Don't copy-paste, take inspiration. I once failed an essay because some asshole who paid me 10 bucks for a copy of my essay literally copy-pasted half of it. The professor, being the faggot he is, failed us both because "he couldn't be sure who copied from who", that faggot knew what was going on for certain, I never did anything like this before, while the other guy was doing the class for a third time because he kept buying peoples' essays.

If it's as full of bugs as you say then it should be quite trivial to cheat the system

It's shit for the hard sciences. There's only a few ways that you can define certain technical terms but it will flag it as plagiarism. Of course the scummy devs say that your prof should go through your thesis and approve it but lazy unis are just saying if you get a certain % or higher or similarity, then they will reject your work out of hand.

If you don't want to write papers and just copy and paste then wtf are you doing? Just go on edubirdie and pay someone to do it.

Don't plagiarise you underage piece of shit
People like you are the reason shit like Turnitin has to exist

I used to work for them, what do you want to know? The old ways to beat it were all patched.

Yes, used it in college years ago. Never plagiarized so I never had any issues. If you want to cite large bits of information, just copy/paste and put the proper citation. Unless your professor is a piece of shit, they'll review it to confirm if it's plagiarized or not.

Replace some letters with letters from other alphabets that look very similar.

I wrote my own stuff.
Never had a problem with it.
Turn it in, Deshawn.

when marking using turnitin my uni ignores your reference list and all your properly referenced sources, so it's just a way to make sure you're not plagiarising the text you are passing off as your own.

If you value your work at $10 you're probably working at the level to fail anyway
No big loss desu

I never put much work into my essays user, I just find somethings online, read the important parts of a few others' works and compile something out of them that is different enough than all of them while still being correct.

this, and also find some invisible characters and stick them in the middle of every word

Also use pictures that are shades of white, with single bit rgb variances, as backgrounds for every page. There are so many ways to add noise to the file, use all of them.

how would that help? it's just parsing the text

None of that would work.

why wouldn't invisible characters work?

You could easily map the characters to their respective colors, and then verify that way.
You could even group similar colors
You could ignore characters that are very similar to the background color.
I'm sure the guys at Turn It In have seen this type of attack, and figured out a way around it.

The tutor has the option to ignore them. There are some very smart guys working there and it's a robust system. The best way to get by it is to translate from a foreign language. They were trying to implement cross-language checking when I worked there but it's an absolute nightmare to actually do.

This is exactly my problem. There's only one way I can define complex biological processes

You expect sympathy for that you idiot? You got paid to let a moron copy your work. What did you think that someone who already didn't want to put any effort in was suddenly going to take the time to rewrite your essay to make it less obvious?

You both got exactly what you deserved. Your teacher busted you for the same reason in bank robberies the getaway drivers are arrested right along with the armed robbers. Fucking dipshit

Share ur secrets m8

Who cucked you?

This is me and the best method I know I left there 4 years ago now so I imagine it's better than ever. I do know that the system used to allow unlimited test submissions and only stored the % score of your most recent effort. So you could try as many tricks as you like and see how they work, and your tutor would only see the latest score. Generally though it's less effort to just do the essay than cheat.

Turnitin doesn't allow you to check your essay for plagiarism before you upload it anymore

Ah well. Time to make some foreign friends.

>Anyway to beat this?
Sure, just write it yourself.

>apply yourself or kill yourself

Not op but this is surprisingly motivating

I love Turnitin. You just enable it and when the students submit their work (not just papers, excel and other data files too), it automatically scores everything on an overall similarity index. Then when you go into the grading interface (which you have to do anyway to grade them), it highlights everything that's been copied. A sidebar indicates where it was copied from. It will name another student in the same class, or list the class/section if it was from another class at the same university, or the general source if it was submitted at another university, publication, or paper mill.

They even buy papers from paper mills (places that write a term paper for you). If you hire somebody to cheat for you, they'll probably cheat on you, too. And most paper mills resell the same "unique" paper to multiple students. The Turnitin people even buy papers online on popular subjects to build out their database. It's pretty funny to watch a student squirm when you show them how their paper is word-for-word identical (or nearly so) with a paper that got bought online.

Usually, professors know a plagiarized paper when they see it. You can tell from someone's narrative voice that it's someone else doing the writing. Turnitin's value is proving it in a hearing, and catching stuff that got plagiarized from other schools.

And yeah the students' excel uploads are usually very similar because it's the same data being analyzed the same way. You won't get dinged for that because unless you have copy-paste errors or mistakes that are identical to someone else, you'll get the same similarity score as everyone else.

Live and learn. You never did it before, and you sure as hell won't do it again. Helping someone else cheat is cheating, too. That's standard policy in every university I've ever seen.

That's how to get an A. I go whole semesters with nobody showing up for office hours. Then someone comes and I answer their questions and help them (or review a paper and tell them how to improve it before the due date), and then suddenly for a semester or two everyone is lining up at my door because they discover that, surprise surprise, the way to get an A is to take your professors' advice and work with them.

There's no law of nature that says you have to do the paper at the last minute. It's just as fast to do it earlier and you get a better result and get a professor on your side who can help you and write rec letters later.

And oh by the way you learn shit you can use in real life beyond just having a piece of paper with a BS / BA college degree.

Then you're intellectually lazy.

Reminder that TurnItIn plays both sides of the fence: slashdot.org/story/157538

Yeah cause there's so many different ways to cover mitosis that haven't been covered by the millions of students out there

Turnitin has its flaws but like any tool its useful if used correctly. I regularly get 20% scores just because of common accepted phrases used in my field, or quotations used but correctly referenced. The professors have openly explained that they'd never penalize for this, and they only use the score as a red flag for certain papers but always manually check.

If you're attending an institution where they outright reject papers just because its score is too high (without providing a method of appeal) then that's just fucking stupid and you should take it up with your student representative body.

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add "quotes" at the beggining and end of your entire paper in white font and it will interpret this as one long citation, giving you a 0% match

This piece of shit just puts your essay into google. I got a 20% plagiarism once because it thought I plagiarized from Blade, the movie

you get what you pay for idiot

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