turnitin and plagiarism

if i email apart of my dissertation to my lecturer will copy and paste be detected or plagiarism?

If you are referring to "turnitin", YES! DO NOT COPY PASTE!
If you need more help please feel free to ask.

Under any and all circumstances, do not copy and paste. Your prof won't even need turnitin to detect similarities. All s/he need do is search for sections (couple of sentences here and there) of your paper through Google and any similarities with previously published texts will show up. Nothing is worth that kind of risk :(

no i have copied and pasted from an essay i have brought in to my own will this show?

then i advise that you pick out sentences here and there and search for them on Google. If any matches appear, pls paraphrase them. That way you will avoid possible problems.

Do that with the essay you bought (search for it on Google). After it comes up clean, make sure that your entire essay reads consistently and that it is not evident that two people, not one, wrote it :)

i have and nothing is showing so will it be ok then

Not necessarily. If that article has been previously turned in to Turnitin's database it will show up.
There are many databases which are not indexed in Google, but they get caught by turnitin.

it wont be tho if the writer has an ounce of sense i got him off here

Good luck!

P.S.
Turning in bought essays for credit is academic dishonesty and fraud. ;)

i dont understand?!

why are you saying that?

miffy,
I will explain it here as well for everyone. Buying an essay and turning it for credit, pretending that you have done the work whereas you have not, is academic dishonesty. I am not saying that you are doing it, but some people do. ;)

turning it in for credit*

Humble is right miffy. The writer could have provided you with a piece which was orginally written for another person - in that case, it could well be stored somewhere in the turnitin database. you really should use the purchased paper as a model and not turn it in

Its not a clever peice of software, but like most it can be beaten.

even if i bought a customed one ??

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TurnitIn in regard to journals / viewing multiple submissions

Hi All
i want to know, if something is not on the web and has never been submitted as a previous essay then will turn it in have seen it before? i want to use an essay from a journal that was published in 2003 and only sent to members of the author in questions society

thanks for your time

So, you came here to find out if you could get away with plagiarism? My guess is your professors will know you aren't intelligent enough to write a journal-quality article, given that you were dumb enough to come here with that question.

You can use WriteCheck to see if the article has been submitted before or not. It will cost you $5.

Turnitin - viewing the multiple submissions possible?

Hello,

I just wanted to know if my TA or Prof is able to view the multiple submissions I handed into turn it in or does each re-submission override each other? I kind of ****** up as left a copy/paste conclusions of a friends work in my turn it in essay.

Yes (I use the program). Just curious, what happened to you?

If you bought a custom made essay then you should not have anything to worry about. The paper should be 100% original in content because it was commissioned specifically for your use. The instructions you provided to the writer for the development of the paper will ensure that the content will be in accordance with your specifications. The writer will also be using original sources and not sources that he previously used for other clients. If you want to be sure that the writer is not rehashing old information, all you have to do is set a year for the sources. For example, you can specify that he cannot use sources older than 2 years old. That way he cannot take information from old papers for use in your new paper. You will see the dates of the sources in the bibliography page. Paying for a custom essay was a good choice. Writers will always provide you with the newest available information in such a paper because of the high price that is paid for the completion of the work.

translation and turnitin

If I get a paper from say spanish language and translate into english will turnitin detect it? thanks

Since Google Translate is not known to keep records of the various translation jobs it is used for by the students, it is highly unlikely that Turnitin would detect the Spanish to English translation and flag it as plagiarized. TurnitIn functions on a different level in the sense that the company itself keeps a database of previously submitted text for checking. This is what it counterchecks the other submitted essays against for plagiarism detection. So you should not be worried about Turnitin detecting a translated piece of text or paper and then triggering a plagiarism report on it. Those two activities will never meet nor cross paths. What you should be doing is making sure that the Google translation is accurate instead. That translation program is not tremendously accurate when it comes to translating technical papers and terms. That is where you should be looking for problems instead. Additionally, you should not be submitting your paper to turnitin before you submit it to your professor. If you use the plagiarism site first then submit the essay, your original work will already be in the system and that will force the second essay, the one submitted by the professor, to be detected as plagiarized once the professor runs it through the system. Just stay away from Turnitin at all cost. That is the only way to be sure your paper won't turn up as plagiarized. Don't do plagiarism checks using Turnitin.

To answer the original question, no, a simple cut and paste of a portion of a document into an email program will not be detected as plagiarism. That is, provided that you never submitted the paper for a plagiarism scan to turnitin and your professor does not submit the same document for review to the same software after you have submitted it. Remember, turnitin requires the student to submit the whole paper to the system for "investigation" before giving it an all clear. Run the same paper again for a plagiarism check after making revisions to it will flag the same paper as plagiarized because the original paper was already recorded in the system for future reference checks. So, even if you are the original author of the document, it will be flagged as plagiarized to a certain percentage.

Cutting and pasting a portion of a document into an email program is not the same as doing a plagiarism check so I would not be worried about submitting a small section of the document in this manner. I do not believe it will come up as plagiarized unless the above scenario took place prior to the sending of the email.

That may or may not be entirely accurate. To the extent it is accurate, it's only because the entities that capture your keystrokes haven't (yet) chosen to monetize them that particular way. I don't have any of this crap installed, but if you don't turn off Grammarly and/or you type emails using Google and gmail, all those systems store your keystrokes (including unsent drafts). You may be able to disable or opt out of some of it; but I'm pretty sure the rights you consent to give them to "use" your info includes ways that could conceivably get it flagged on a plagiarism scan.

Hold on, you need to be clear about your intentions here. Are you planning to cite information from the previously published article? Or as you planning to simply paraphrase the entire article and then submit it as your original work? The first option, means you will be able to properly cite the materials in your paper. It will also not pass for plagiarism even if it turns up in plagiarism checkers provided you did not quote too much from original text. However, if you are planning to do the latter, then that is definitely plagiarism and you may just get caught doing so. Just because the article was not available online at the time of your inquiry at this forum doesn't mean that the article will never go live online. So tread lightly. Write an original paper and use quotes from the old article sparingly. That way you can skirt any plagiarism accusations later on.

If you are using the article as part of your research (for your own essay/article), then yes, you can. If you are planning to use that essay as your own, absolutely not. Regardless of when the article was posted and by whom is was or wasn't seen, using someone else's work as your own is plagiarism.

Going back to the original discussion, if the student opted to send only a paragraph or two of his original dissertation, which is a work in progress, then I doubt any plagiarism will be detected. The paper has not been completed and has not been submitted to any plagiarism detection software yet. Therefore, the total paper is not yet located in any database. So there is no chance that a cut and paste portion of a paper will come back as plagiarized. I do not think that any professor would submit a part of a dissertation to a database for plagiarism checking. The paper is not completed enough to warrant such a check yet.

Google Translate now keeps records of everything that it translates for the user because the information is used to improve the artificial intelligence of Gemini. So, while your paper may not have shown up in a search during previous times, it may show up these days when you do a Google search. AI can easily tell you if your paper shows up anywhere else on the internet, but it will not tell you when AI uses your information in other papers. Therefore, it is best to never upload your paper to the internet for any reason.

This is ridiculously bad and totally irresponsible advice to be dispensing to students just looking for helpful advice in these threads. How could you (or anybody else) possibly ever know or provide assurance that a project provided by some writer about whom you know absolutely nothing or by some random essay company will actually be "100 original"? There are countless examples, just on this forum, detailing instances of completely plagiarized material blatantly copied and pasted in essays that were all "commissioned specifically" for customers, all of which "should" have been entirely original work. Obviously, if every writer and every essay company could be trusted to provide good original work, there'd never have been any need for a forum all about identifying and avoiding scams in this industry. In fact, scams of all kinds have always been rampant throughout this industry, including but hardly limited to plagiarized and recycled essays represented and sold at a premium price as "original" work.