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Noticed this user bot and got curious:

http://www.turnitin.com/
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My guess is no student is in any danger of getting busted for plagiarizing a OTNOT post.
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Nonc Hilaire wrote:My guess is no student is in any danger of getting busted for plagiarizing a OTNOT post.
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I thot u said Turing?.....'>>.......
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noddy wrote:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:My guess is no student is in any danger of getting busted for plagiarizing a OTNOT post.
o_O
The purpose of Turnitin is so professors and editors can upload term papers and submissions and have them screened for similarities to online postings. It's a way to catch students and authors who cut and paste the work of others.
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noddy wrote:
Nonc Hilaire wrote:My guess is no student is in any danger of getting busted for plagiarizing a OTNOT post.
o_O

The purpose of Turnitin is so professors and editors can upload term papers and submissions and have them screened for similarities to online postings. It's a way to catch students and authors who cut and paste the work of others.


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But what if you changed the paper a bit, put it in quotes and wrote "Fixed" at the end? Would that work?
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YMix wrote:But what if you changed the paper a bit, put it in quotes and wrote "Fixed" at the end? Would that work?
I imagine it would compare two papers and give a percentage of the amount of the same content. For example if you took the common words between the two leaving out the obvious 'I' "the" 'of' ex-cetera there compared their placement then an instructor would know which papers to compare for content.
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YMix wrote:But what if you changed the paper a bit, put it in quotes and wrote "Fixed" at the end? Would that work?
Turnitin gives a percentage of similarity score. Doing that might lower the percentage a bit, but would not eliminate flagging the plagarized document.
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I'm so glad you people got my joke.
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YMix wrote:I'm so disappointed you people didn't get my joke.{Fixed}
We got it Ymix. Unfortunately :P
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YMix wrote:I'm so glad you people DIDN'T get my joke.
fixed... ;)
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Doc wrote:We got it Ymix. Unfortunately :P
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