CaNexus or Dr. EVE is a scam

Bought a software online which claimed to be able to check plagiarized essay and other types of written documents. I thought it would be useful for me as a student. It did not work at all, and I have not received any refund although they have the guarantee policy.

Don't try it. I did and I did not like it.

I used Eve too - bought it but didn't like it at all; requested a refund and after a few emails back and forth they refunded my money. Anti-plagiarism software is a waste of time - it will not provide a precise answer. It will just list dozens or hundreds of sites that have the words that are in the original document. In the end when your paper contains "hello, how are you doing today?" (for example), it will mark it as plagiarized because some other millions of pages contain the words: "hello, how, are, you, doing, today". In the end it will mark your document as 70% "plagiarized" even though it's not plagiarized at all. This software is as stupid as it gets.

My school requires us to scan all papers through Turnitin.com. In my opinion this does not and will never work well. There are more and more papers in their databases; that's why their system is getting more and more useless. Some of my friends (actually, me too) got busted because of that. Fortunately the teachers know about the weakness of this system too and they turn a blind eye on the plagiarism scan results. Then - why do they use it at all? I've heard it costs pretty much money to scan each paper. IMO that money could be spent on some more useful resources.

What?!!?? What do you mean "requires"? It's like your teacher told you "you must buy a X brand laptop to use on my course; otherwise I'll fail you". Turnitin sux and they use your copyrighted work to cash in. Then they store your papers forever to "compare" results of other works with your work. How much commission do they pay you??

Teachers are lazy and think they can "require" the student to do the job for them. What kind of world do we live in?

Forgot to add - I wonder who's "great" idea it was but it was "smart"... As far as I know teachers require the students to submit papers to Turnitin THEMSELVES. Then, when there's a problem, they think they will not be liable for the copyright infringement.. because the student - not them - submitted the paper to the turnitin system.

Smart...

Hi,

Most universities in the UK now have online access to Turnitin for students.

What happens is:

- You submit your paper electronically, through their Turnitin portal.
- Check that no plagiarism has occurred.
- Resubmit further drafts until you are happy/deadline arrives.

Of course, what happens when you do this is:

Turnitin "You submitted an essay that looks suspiciously like your 2nd draft...that's very similar, I think you've plagiarised yourself from 3 days ago, 56% similarity." (everything else in it <1% similarity to anything else)

Me: "Oh, my final draft looks like my second draft? Goodness me, I wasn't expecting that *read with extreme sarcasm whilst rolling eyes*, good thing I wrote my student number at the top of the paper in every draft, so my academic staff know it's not someone else's work I've stolen isn't it?!"

*mumble mumble, stupid badly programmed piece of... grumble* ;-)

Any free or student-accessible version of Turnitin is not the full version. Access to the real Turnitin is very cautiously guarded and handed out to professors only. I have seen papers make it through Turnitin.com and Writecheck student versions, and get red-flagged by the professors-only version.

Turnitin is horrible. They had their day in court, and won, and now we all have to deal with the train-wreck those palm-greasing, thieving b-tards created.

I don't know what version we students have access to, we're just told to submit our essays through the Turnitin portal and it checks our work and gives us a report. I can't really help with how red flagged or not it may or may not get if my uni has versions for staff we don't see. But I am in the UK, so things might be different over the pond.

I wonder if Turnitin is able to tell that the work was written by UKEssays or CustomPapers or whatever other service a student may use?

Major:
I really have no clue TBH, I guess as long as the writer themselves hasn't submitted it to the database, it is ok?

I mean my paper was my own work and before submitting it for review/marking I had submitted 2 drafts to the Turnitin interface we have to use, so it isn't really relevant for me, my lecturers aren't stupid and the instructions for using Turnitin specifically tell us to submit every draft, if we can (so they'll know it's my work when Turnitin comes back with *stupid percentage similarity*).

We're told to do it just in case something bad happens and we can't get our last draft in on time i.e. internet breaks/turnitin goes offline/uni explodes ;D

That is preposterous! Students who are serious about their work, and want to receive a good grade know to back up their work as they go along. There is no need to turn in a draft to turnitin at this point. Anybody who uses Windows 365 or Google docs automatically gets their paper backed up to the cloud, thus eliminating the need to submit every draft to TurnitIn. It is always best to avoid uploading incomplete papers to any plagiarism checker because you never know when your draft will get flagged as plagiarism and, if the professor will be too lazy to even double check and simply fail the paper based on the turnitin percentage. Yes, I have known of several cases when that happened and the student was not happy with having to write a totally new paper, just because the professor was too lazy to do his job.

For the students who use Word 365, they may have found that using a plagiarism checker is no longer necessary. That is because the system now comes bundled with a similar content checker which the student can run each time he finishes editing a document. It does not require an additional subscription and, it allows the student to check for any possible similarities of his writing with previously published content as he completes the work. By doing so, he can completely write an original paper with proper cited sources and 0 chances of plagiarism.

I've never understood why anybody doing his own writing would need a plagiarism scanner, because nobody ever copies the exact language from any source by "accident"; copying and pasting from sources is always a deliberate act.