my point exactly
although you guys would finish the semester earlier then, right?
We finish the semester 5th June and exams on 18th June - I dont know if thats earlier or not...
hey..
i was gonna make a different thread for this question i have, but i just chose to put it here..
yeah apparently i have to like submit one of my assignments to this thing called turnitin, sum anti-plagiarism software or something...
my question is, what if i used someone else's idea (eg. a paragraph which i put into my own words), referenced where i got my source and submitted my assignment to turnitin...will turnitin detect this as plagiarism even though i referenced where i got my source for that particular paragraph i used? i dont really get it.
tbh i think macq is too overrated with these type of things... and its F*&^*%$ annoying.
I had to use it turnitin before
basically when i wrote something like "the fall of the Berlin Wall" since other people had written it it will get picked up on Turnitin as having been used before. Also, the majority of my bibliography got highlighted as "plagerised" because other people who had handed in assingments on turnitin had used the same sources.
Basically if you have referenced everything fine it will be ok. THe marker doesn't just look at the percentage and see 25% and say well obviously thats a FAIL....they will look at the percentage then what has been highlighted on turnitin and compare it to what turnitin says its plagerised from.
The software gives the marker not only what it says is plagerised but also the section of work which it claims its plagerised from.
Hope that helps you and eases your worries....if the lecturer has opened it up for more than one submittal you are actually able to see what it says you're plagerising as well...
