#turnitin.com

[quercus-queer]

Turnitin.com is so unintentionally funny when you know you’re not plagiarizing like

Okay you funky little website I guess plants just pull the carbon dioxide straight from their ass???

[melisune]

Why turnitin.com is really the shittiest website on Earth for schools to use

If you don’t use it, be grateful. If you don’t know what it is, it’s a website to check for plagiarism in papers.

My business writing professor makes us use it, and anything above a 10% is considered cheating, with some leniency here and there.

Here’s the problem: the website is fucking stupid.

1) If you have to resubmit it takes 24 HOURS for it to come back, even though it only takes 30 minutes the first time. Why? Because the stupid system automatically throws your paper into the system the second it’s submitted, instead of WAITING for the assignment to close. This means that if you have a problem, resubmit, and then still have a problem and you’ve been trying to fix this for two days, guess what? YOU’RE FUCKED.

2) It marks you for sources. And dates. And will highlight random INDIVIDUAL WORDS. Seriously? If people are doing their sources correctly, and they manage to use the same source as someone else but in a different way....OF COURSE THEY’RE GOING TO BE FUCKING IDENTICAL. YOU DON’T HAVE A CHOICE. The way they are presented is a REQUIREMENT.

The requirement for my class is 10%.

I was marked at 21%

Fucking 12% of that was sources

I got 8% because I used words like “company” and “will” and “collection”, among other small phrases.

Now to wait in gut wrenching agony for my professor to respond to my email and hope he doesn’t report me for plagiarism I didn’t commit.

[ghostesez]

every turnitin experience ever

me: *turning a paper into turnitin.com*

turnitin: processing your dumb paper

me:

turnitin: okay, your paper is 30% plagiarized

me: what

turnitin: we have determined that your name, professor and course id is plagiarized from a paper you turned in last week and the date is from a paper a classmate of yours turned in an hour ago

me:

turnitin: also, the term "was not going to", this random comma, and the word "and"

me:

turnitin: also, those three are all from different papers spread out since 2008

turnitin: you thief

me:

turnitin: i hope they expel you

[glockatchu]

when u happy cause u dont need to submit ur paper on turnitin.com cause u know u done plagiarized more than half of it

[under-a-r0ck]

JUST SUBMITTED MY REASEARCH PAPER TO TURNITIN.COM FOR SCHOOL AND IM FREAKING OUT AJSJAJAJAK

[king-direwolf]

I'm so fucking happy right now.

So in my English class we have to do at least three essays a quarter and we turn them in to turnitin.com.  The teacher puts notes in it about what she thought about our writing in certain parts, and also an overall comment about the essay as a whole.  She has to grade a couple hundred so it took her about a month to grade one of the last ones (we've turned one in since the one I'm talking about).

Usually she doesn't like mine very much and gives mine a lot of comments about what I could improve.  This time...it was worth the month wait.  She liked it.  She fucking liked it.  She had no comments about what I could do better.  She kept putting that she liked what I did at certain parts.

Again...I'm so fucking happy right now.

[ibmemes]

[tartaglliaaa]

When my teacher first told me to hand in my paper online to a place called Turnitin.com I though it was some ghetto site. Then I checked it out. It was fucking hardcore as shit. I am going to die b/c that site will probably say that I plagiarized everything and I will fail my whole high school career. No more Tumblr for me guys since I'll probably have to sell my laptop to get money and live on the streets begging for food. You might see me and if you do please spare me some food. Thanks so much turnitin.com.... I can almost see my future collapsing because of your cyber intelligence system which can sweep the whole World Wide Web and possibly stalk me in my sleep.