#turnitin is so DUMB

[ventisventing]

god I hate turnitin and how it flags my work when I haven't plagerized at all. Like bro just because my word choices are sometimes weird, I used dwindled and such in the latest lab report, doesn't mean I plagirized. It's not my fault my brain sometimes uses big words. Now I have to figure out how to reword it cause I got a 46%

#It's a physics class anyway aen't I supposed to use big words????? #I'm an artist not a scholar #how else am I suppose to word it without big words #this is why I hate turnitin #they've false flagged me before in highschool too #makes me so mad considering I work hard only to have to redo it cause some dumb ai thinks my wording is sus #like bro #you're sus #i have anxiety and am a senior #there's no way i'd be dumb enough to plagerize on a class I'm only taking to fill my final gen ed so I can graduate this semester #I don't care enough about this class #hell the only reason why put in effort was because I have an irrational fear of having bad grades due to my family #man #just want to scream #especially cause I doubt the prof take my excuses #but you bet your ass i'm messaging my advisor to make sure that too many of these false flags won't put me in trouble #I've worked too hard just to have some ai blow it all by claiming I plagerized #WHEN I DIDN'T #gahhhhhhhhhh #so frustrating #whyyyyyy #tw rant #cw rant #tw turnitin #tw swearing #cw swearing

[sapphia]

The thing I love about Hbomberguy’s latest video essay on plagiarism is it really gets to the root of why someone plagiarises, which in turn reassures the audience of the soundness of their own creative process and that of the creatives they love. He spends so much time praising and analysing the difference between derivative works (non-negative) and plagiarised works that it reassures and broadens the knowledge of other creatives and of the audiences consuming their works, which in turn helps assuage any unconscious reactionary feelings of “But this other creative I love does something slightly similar”.

As someone who writes, and as someone who went through the churn-em-out of the modern university degree system and all the plagiarism anxiety that comes with that, the topic of copying and mimicking other creatives is a heavy and ill-understood topic in so many spaces. The education system, at least in my country, went from encouraging rote-learning and copying by rewarding those who best memorised answers previously learned (e.g. exam answer schedules, memorising the wording of pre-practiced essays) to encouraging original thought in extensively-written about topics for essays. It’s very hard not to feel like you’re plagiarising when you’re one of 300 first year law students writing about a a topic from one very in-depth source that you’ve studied in class and three smaller ones, and Turnitin has put in your mind that the MOST important thing you can do for this essay is not to pass it, but to reword it well enough not to get caught up in this plagiarism detector. And I can recognise my behaviours in what Hbomberguy identifies - I remember minute-before-the-deadline essays where I was guilty of padding out my biography with sources from my sources, and can think of phrases or techniques of writing I’ve read in books that I sometimes worry might come through in my writing in a way that feels like stealing.

Plagiarism anxiety is real, and it’s fed by a lack of understanding around what plagiarism is and where it comes from. Hbomberguy is so right for complimenting a bunch of lame youtubers for the enthusiasm with which they openly bounce off of other people’s ideas. This collaborative method of creating where ideas are taken and passed on due to love of the craft can feel derivative eventually - but taken within a body of work where the creator is riffing or paying homage to and not merely regurgitating others success is at the heart of where any meaningful success and love for the medium lies. Creators need to be coming from a place of genuine enthusiasm and respect - it’s when they dont, when they’re looking down on others, that we see these behaviours emerging.

And that helps identify the urges within ourselves, and know more firmly whether what we’re doing is tribute or theft, including the many not just acceptable but positive ways of referencing back to sources and inspiration. It helps us tell when we ourselves are genuinely trying to pay homage and when we are treading the more murky waters of unfair attribution. So thanks Hbomberguy for dumbing down this topic in the most relatable but inaccessible-by-length way possible, as per usual.

#continually impressed with the way he manages to add to conversations tbh #hbomberguy #breadtube #video essays #james somerton

[goodmiffy]

I just spent all night working my ass off on this assignment bc i thought it was due tomorrow, went to submit at 3:30am only to realise the turnitin deadline was actually tonight (as in 23:59) so now my grade will be capped 🥲 kms kms kms why am i dumb if i had realised it was actually due today not tomorrow obvs i would’ve finished it before midnightttt ufhhhhh I’m gonna speak to my tutor and see if she can bend the grade cap rules for me

[poohbea]

nah, cause screw grammerly and everything adjacent, they are so money hungry... i was tryna run my literature review for plagiarism and tell me why grammerly told me i had a significant amount of plagiarism and when i submitted it to turnitin through my uni it told me that that section of the paper was completely original...? i'm not buying your dumb premium service...

#⊹ ⋆ﾟ꒰ఎ pooh’s rambling again ໒꒱ ⋆ﾟ⊹ #lesson of the day #trust the official software #cause these companies be tryna scam you for a buck

[bread-of-death]

B r u h

If I get flagged for plagiarism on this essay I’m gonna be so fucken pissed

It’s my CITATIONS

LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE CITATION IS FLAGGED- AND UTS ALMOST EVERY WORD IN THE CITATION

TWENTY OUT OF THIRTY ONE PERCENT OF MY PLAGIARISM REPORT IS JUST MY CITATIONS

AND ALMOST ALL OF THE REST IS DUMB SHIT LIKE “Governor’s term of office” “House of Delegates”

Like at WORST it’s stuff like “Senators serve four year terms, and Delegates serve two year terms and have..” like,,, there’s only so much phrasing I can change dude- I wrote this all without looking at the source, just my notes, which I did my best to use my own words on

And it’s saying I plagiarized another student’s paper (from a completely different class as far as I’m aware) like,, of course language is going to be similar, we’re a bunch of fucking teenagers using more immature, not-quite-college-level language

Grrrr I hate TurnItIn

#it flags #literally #EVERYTHING #there have been multiple instances- this essay included- where it’ll flag one singular word #like ‘the’ #I’m not joking #it’s so fucjing stupid #bread hates school

[wearethewitches]

omigod Turnitin noted a similarity on my name&student id header from my own paper from last year

#the mind boggles #turnitin is so DUMB #turnitin #uni #essays #university

[room4creation]

turnitin so dumb honestly

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

for anyone who may be starting uni/college next year:

please don’t submit your old work from high school and brag to people about it like: “i get distinctions/75s-83s on all of my work bc my writings sooo mature for my age!!! you should do it too bc it’s just so much easier than bothering to write something new!!! and plus, I was getting good grades in senior school so it doesn’t matter!!! also, it’s technically not cheating or plagiarism (so lame right 🙄) bc my school (and probs yours too) doesn’t/didn’t use turnitin, so it’s defs not on the database 😉! trust me! just do it! like it can’t be that much of a difference! just don’t tell the professors 😅🤫.” all as if you’re presenting it as a life hack for slightly older uni students.... when it’s not.

like don’t get me wrong, i know first year uni is fucking hard on all fronts: from getting used to having 4 heavier subjects, getting used to a full timetable and multiple deadlines; trying to make friends; dealing with professors that might seem aloof to you, but really aren’t in most subject areas; your time management goes off the wazoo bc uni isn’t what you expected to be.... etc etc etc. i get it. it’s hard.

but if you’re telling the above to a slightly older student whose in their 20s (like i was getting told by some first years in that intro to creative writing class in 2017... when i was in third year by that time and turning 22 that year).... they can’t do that..... because their writing has changed and matured (as well as generally speaking, they have as well, depending on the person) from their high school self. like I was a pretty different person from 2013 me back in 2017. like those 4 years away from high school did make me different from 17/18yo me.

a person in their early 20s (meaning from 21-23) very obviously can’t turn in something that they wrote at even 18. considering that they realise that their writing in high school was actually awful and overly flowery even in creative writing..... and it just generally it makes them cringe lmao. but the professor would be able to tell that a teenager had written whatever they turned in from highschool, against something a 22 year old (although not much older) would write.

like y’all. all the creative pieces i wrote in high school were about zombies or being a popular hot girl.... or even worse.... failing the hsc and being a dole bludger later in life bc of it (???? like what the fuck even???? 😂😅).... and they all had very obvious teenaged voices. language wise, I’d just shove a ridiculous bunch of big adjective words together bc i thought they made me sound clever..... when in reality, i had probably just used those words in the wrong context without actually knowing their proper meaning or place in a sentence or w/e.

on a technical level, (i suppose?), my metaphors were dumb asf. like in the zombie story i wrote in year 10/2011.... I likened depression to being like a zombie or w/e the fuck.... and teenage me thought it was deep, thoughtful and smart.... but when I read it now, I realise that it’s just.... cringey asf and not a good metaphor at all... and if i, or a professor, can easily pick that shit up, so can other students in their 20s, who may be in this class with us as well. hell. maybe you even will. being a teenager and all lmao. like y’all. even the shit that i turned in for my essays or stories in years 11/12 wouldn’t pass the people in their 20s and the professor as something my 21/22yo self would’ve written in 2017. and honestly. i thank fucking god for that.

but anyway yeah. this has been a reminder from a postgrad student to first year undergrad students that you shouldn’t turn in your stuff from years 11/12/your senior years of high school just because you think you’re “smart” bc you got to uni/college. like if you’re still trying to pull this type bs in second year or above (like I did try to do actually.... in order to clumsily make a point about the first years doing this (and to also piss that professor off a bit tbh lol); in that creative writing class in 2017. hint: it failed miserably on all counts lol), bc your profs will probably end up cottoning on and calling you into a meeting about academic misconduct or some shit. like that’s scary, right? lol.

you’re supposed to write new stuff at uni to build and hone your skills; not just keep turning old shit in and hoping it will still pass at a 65, at the very least, all bc you think that: “i write so well bc im so mature for my age! be jealous!” or w/e dumb shit i was told by first years doing this. you are kind of sort of cheating, even if turnitin doesn’t pick it up. write new shit to grow as a writer/creative person, instead of just relying on your writing from high school to get an easy ride.

like sarah, im sorry. but i’ve read some of your stuff in this class. and, quite frankly, it’s not that fucking great. and the same goes for you, kieran. you pretentious prick. both of you sit the fuck down and learn that just because you did fucking extension 1&2 english, english advanced and extension drama or w/e the fuck in your end of high school exams- it does NOT mean that you’re the next teen writing prodigy, or the next hemingway or charlotte bronte. and it also doesn’t mean that you can continue submitting your high school essays and creative pieces and think that you’ll continue to get good marks.... bc you’ll probably end up getting caught out if you continue doing it.

finally, also recommending that people slightly older than you (in their early 20s) can do the same even if they just “change some words around” or “do something better with the voice” isn’t feasible advice either. bc for them, there’s probably no way around it, in most cases... because you can tell very, very easily that a clueless 16-18 year old wrote that essay/story/monologue or whatever else in comparison to a early 20something whose been through 2.5 years of uni.... and everyone in the class can pick that up..... no matter how well the person tries to re-write that particular piece as their current early 20s self.

because, after all: we’re all novice, practicing writers here. we’re not as clever as we all like to think we are. and that’s what we’re here for: to hone and strengthen our skills. not to weaken our skills and use the same stuff we’ve written over & over again, to see if we can get away with it.

#life #about me #shut up ilona #uni #uni life

[an-oldcardigan]

i looked at my turnitin report and most of my “plagarism” comes from student submitted papers...cause yeah i stole “so and so said this on july 29 2019″ from a student paper in Oregon its not like we both could be talking about events that occurred on the same day or the same biographical information this is dumb

#most of my plagarism comes from the fact that i wrote facts..you really want me to either a: cite all of those facts or b: reword them #how do i reword so and so was born on this day #i feel like that meme thats like rewrite this in your own words #its nice she's letting me redo it but like cmon this isnt a big deal #personal

[ansu-gurleht]

dude this shit’s so dumb......i have to read this essay for class and lead a class discussion for it, right? the essay is like, an argument against using plagiarism detection services like turnitin

like all these arguments are pretty goddamn weak but this dude literally just compared using them to racial profiling

[tiffanyachings]

this dumb bitch was so excited to finally hand in her research proposal she only submitted the paper copy and forgot about turnitin

#this dumb bitch is gonna lose five marks for late submission now #the admin lady wrote 'no penalties' on my paper submission and that's the one that gets physically marked #but they'll probably still look at the other one to check for plagiarism and my risk assessment #fieldwork #adventures in academia

[paraqraphs]

This is a mental breakdown. This isn’t interesting at all. Just a dumb rant.

School is ending. I’m graduating high school in April. Just like any other student, the last few months of school suck because I have zero motivation to get work done, it’s cold and hard to get up in the morning, and everyone else is tired any way. But I’m trying so hard. I want to leave high school with good grades for college, and I’m trying so hard.

The research I’m currently finishing was inspired by an essay I made for a class where I had the best teacher. That’s why I’m trying my best to make it my best research yet. But my research professor sucks. I’m so mad and so sad right now I’m going to cry while typing this. 

The prof makes us pass our research files online, on turnitin, and being the nerd that I am, I pass mine as soon as I can. 11 days ago, we had to pass a second revision for the first three chapters. But the assignment posted only allowed a single file upload. While we were still in class, I asked him how we were going to pass three separate files (as he instructed) if it only allowed a single upload. He instructed my group to make separate accounts so that each group member can submit a file. THATS WHAT WE DID. We submitted our second revision at 2pm, even when the deadline was still at 6pm. Nerds.

That was 11 days ago. Today, I got a message saying that our group never submitted anything. I re-submitted it just now and it’s probably going to be marked late.

What happened was he deleted the first assignment he posted, where we submitted our work! He replaced it with 3 separate assignments where the three files should be submitted separately. Dumbass shit. I never saw that he deleted the first one, and I never saw the new assignments posted because we submitted ours early.

Fuck.

Lesson learned: Don’t be a loser like me, and procrastinate on that paper. You’ll probably mess up when you pass on time anyways.

Good luck, friends. I hope you’re having a better life.

#paraqraphs #monster prof #studyblr

[pacman-tattoo]

this email is gonna consist of my two body paragraphs, and a ‘by the way the paper mentioned turnitin but i dont have the class code stuff so my apologies if we got that before. i’m dumb.’

#how do i say i might have add but i cant figure out whether i do or not and get meds for a little while longer so please b patient w me :( #bean talks