Turnitin deletion of paper

I requested form turnit in to delete a paper submitted some time ago from my university for plagiarism check.
Here is their reply

Thank you for contacting the Turnitin Help Desk regarding your paper.
Please contact your instructor regarding paper deletion. For contractual
reasons all paper deletion requests must be submitted by the account
administrator.

Thank you for using Turnitin. If you have any other questions please
feel free to contact us again.

Since for several reasons i cannot contact my instructor regarding paper deletion I would ask to ask from you people who to contact (perhaps their legal department?) and if possible to provide me a layout with my request

No - it has to be the account adminstrator; no one else can delete it. In the future, however, when uploading to turnitin make sure that you select the DO NOT SUBMIT TO REPOSITORY option. That way, your paper will be checked against the student repository but will not be stored on it

I tried the viper scanner to check for any plagiurism in my essay. The terms and condition state that the company keeps a copy of the work that was scanned. Therefore does this mean that if my university use a different plagiurism checker (such as turnitin) then my essay would be regonised as 100% plagiurised because the viper company has a copy of it?

No, it doesn't. If you ran your paper through Viper, it can't be detected by turnitin, unless it was previously submitted to turnitin. Turnitin will check the paper against all the previous papers in it's own database, however it can't access the database of any other plagiarism detector.

If you truly want to make sure that your paper is safe, despite the fact that you checked it by Viper, go and use writecheck.turnitin (Turnitin for students) and run it through. You'll have to buy 5$ credit for 5,000 words, but at least you'll know what is your standing.

I was wondering about this. Is there a good, preferably free alternative to Turnitin? I have paid for an essay from a site and it seems really good, and I've used Google to check for plagiarism and found nothing, but I've been * over before so I want to be sure. I don't want to use Turnitin and I don't want to submit to some site that keeps a copy, so I was wondering if anyone's got any tips?

You can use turnitin but in the OPTIONS specify DO NOT SUMBIT TO STUDENT REPOSITORY. It will not keep a copy if you do so

Thanks, can't believe I didn't realise that.

In my experience turnitin is the most advanced. Furthermore, considering that it is used by most universities and schools, it's a good idea to stick to it - that way you will see that which your professor will see :)

Thanks!

can anyone tell me whether writecheck.plagiarism website which is powered by turnitin is reliable....is it possible for students to check for plagiarism in turnitin.com

Hi gini - I gave it a test drive. It is excellent ... it's a student version of turnitin and, importantly, does not store papers in the turnitin student paper repository. It is very reliable ...

thanks...

my pleasure ... pls look at this thread: "WARNING: If you use Viper / Raptor Plagiarism Scanner, you waive copyright to your own property!"

Hello :-)

Yes do look at the thread OxbridgeResearchers has recommended - you don't waive the copyright to your property, just to any payment for the fact that we retain a copy of your paper in our database, securely, for other students to scan against. Nothing else.

Unfortunately WB let his/her imagination run a little wild! :-D

i used wrtiecheck.turnitin.com
i would like to know as i ve got the result of 30% plagiarism but when i exclude quotes it shows 10%, so when the lecturer mark your paper ecluding quotes...please advice

Nice try, Jenny.

Proof: https://essayscam.org/forum/gt/warning-use-viper-raptor-plagiarism-scanner-1062/

Whether your professor turns the "include quotations" option on or not is unimportant. The right hand column of the report reveals the source of your quotations and all your professor need do is check whether the coloured/highlighted passages are in quotes or not. As far as the 20% mentioned is concerned, you are safe.

The 10% is another issue. Is it from the body of the paper or your bibliography? If from the body of the paper, you need to change it asap ... eliminate that 10%.

Another thing ... 20% quotations is way too much. You should not devote any more than 10% of your study to quotations. Try to fix that as well as it will probably bring your grade down.

Hey OR

I have seen a few reports generated by turnitin, it catches common phrases as well. Even if I write something totally from scratch without even looking at anything it would still show a small percentage of similarity.

Is it really possible to get 0% or it depends on the nature of similar phrases?

Hey humble - 0% is practically impossible. 5% is more like it when one switches on the "exclude quotes" and "exclude bibliography" options. The 5% (maximum), however, should be dispersed throughout the paper and not located in blocks or full sentences as that would indicate plagiarism :)

I have used this site and I hope it does not store my information. It is free and seems to do well, as I have never had plagiarism in the papers I have written

Turnitin is not free unless you are using an account etablished for you by your university.

It's worth the money

I completely agree. Its originality reports are comprehensive and very easy to read/understand. It is invaluable for students who want to check the status of their work before they submit it

Where can i find the "DO NOT SUMBIT TO STUDENT REPOSITORY" option in the new turnitin 2 interface?? it seems to have disappeared

is there any free service that works as well as turnitin to check for plagirism? thx

How can one have access to turnitin?

I am wondering the same, hope someone experienced will show up and help out!

As I see most of these posts are a bit old..... so I thought I should ask again...I am actually so tempted to use writecheck.com/static/home.html, but I am so scared! My school does use Turnitin and I am afraid when they submit my work, it'll show up as 100% plagiarized. Please share your experiences with us guys!

Also if I am using the turnitin account established for me by my school to check my papers before submitting them, would that be any different from checking them on a personal turnitin account?

Or so they say. There is no evidence to prove that Turnitin isn't just going to keep the file tucked away somewhere for use say 2 -5 decades to come. They will find a way to use that paper somehow because they already own it. They know that the professor isn't going to bother to ask them to delete the paper, and they are not bound by any legal agreements that will force them to delete the paper. For big tech companies like these, privacy laws were made to be broken. Those rules do not apply to them.

We are all apart of a complex data collection machinery. Student essays are one of the main sources of information. Before you check on " Do not deposit in repository", read the fine print first. Make sure that you are not allowing the company to store the information on a short term scale prior to actual deletion. Make sure that they did not just make the paper unsearchable in the database. Regardless of what you click, there is a minimum holding period for the submitted data.

In the event that you cannot contact your professor anymore, contact the IT dept. of your school and ask them for an alternative contact. Surely they would know whom you can reach out to in place of the professor. If not, then perhaps someone in the department can represent your request to the professor.