By zoegirl_455 - 09/04/2014 21:57 - United States - San Francisco

Today, my teacher used an online program and accused me of plagiarism. According to the program, I plagiarized my own last name. FML
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zoegirl_455 30

Surprised this got posted guess it's twenty times the charm. So yes this fml needs a ton of explanation. The program my teacher used is turn it in. My percentage of plagiarism is 22%. Some of what is highlighted as plagiarism is my works cited and my last name, there's also some parts of sentences that are apparently plagiarized also. The paper was on historical events so much of what is highlighted are dates, names, and events. The things that my teacher said were "word from word from turn it in" were descriptions of historical events and similar things, and they were phrases, not whole sentences. When I looked at the source of plagiarism my words were apparently copied from a website I've never heard of, a student paper that I'm pretty sure is from another state, and a website I did use as a source in my paper and did cite. I did not plagiarize my paper, I spent a whole week writing it and a good portion of my weekend editing it. The most frustrating thing is that many people from my class spit out a paper two hours before it was due and got a higher grade. I am planning to talk to my teacher after school and clear this up. It's pretty ridiculous because in all my 12 years of school I've never been accused of this sooo I'm hoping my teacher will be able to understand. To clear up the meaning of the FML, I was trying to say that my teacher basically used some program on the Internet to accuse me of plagiarism that just highlights anything that is remotely similar to something else, which resulted in a higher percentage of plagiarism. Hopefully this explanation wasn't too confusing and this cleared everything up!

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ruckfules85 34

Wtf is going through peoples minds these days. Your teacher needs to get herself together.

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91hayek 31

Technology taking the place of common sense is becoming a lot more common and is a comment on the huge gap that has developed between the complexity of the technologies and the illiteracy of those who operate them.

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zoegirl_455 30

Perfectly put, if my teacher would have looked more into the sources and talked to me first, instead of relying on a computer program, none of this would have happened.

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jimmy_poison 19

#59: how many people are in your class? How quickly do you expect your grades / feedback? We typically use plagiarism detection software because we just don't have time to check all the sources, especially with badly written references (which is often the cause of false-positives in plagiarism detection). Your teacher is one person marking a number of assignments and trying to do so relatively quickly (on top of all of their other normal work commitments) to meet the current students' demands for near-instant feedback, mistakes sometimes get made, get over it

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zoegirl_455 30

#75, I completely understand, however I got the paper back a month after I had written it on the day the grades closed for the marking period. And other people got their papers back before me. If you read my last reply to my follow up you'll understand I'm not freaking out just slightly frustrated that a misunderstanding could have clearly been fixed with some communication

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LifeOfAnRN 18

The thing about common sense is that it's not all that common. I did plagiarize that from the Dominos's manager.

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jimmy_poison 19

#88 - I do apologise. I projected some of my own frustrations onto you with no real justification for doing so. Sorry!

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Jakob2255 12

this true about tech automated answering sometimes can't tell the difference with hour and *****

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Exhayle 20

My last name isn't even a real word according to multiple computer programs.

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brandoneyez1 25

Your teacher had to find more to say its plagiarism. If you copied even a paragraph or someone else who may have copied previously.

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Awahso 25

At our school it has to detect 20% plagarism before they can even act on it

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tj4234 35

The scary thing is is that for a lot of large subjects, especially those with a lot written on them (history for example), 20% plagiarism is considered normal. We have to use turnitin as our plagiarism detector and even though i know i have referenced correctly i always shit myself before submitting my assessments, because 20% is a fairly normal amount. But yet, they still mention it even though it is normal xD.

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MrsHaxxo 22

She sounds very smart

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worldclassrager 39

How did you manage that one? And what I really want to know how to prevent that...don't want to fail a class for that reason

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simsgirlgem 25

My last names Hill so I don't know how screwed I be but your teacher is an idiot OP take this higher up

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dakid87 10

The worst part is that person is your teacher? Smh

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mchmelev1993 10

Wtf! Then i guess your whole class plagarized too if last names raise a red flag. What college is this anyway? Lol

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jimmy_poison 19

Plagiarism detection software will flag it as someone else has used that name, but teachers review the reports before deciding on plagiarism. There's more to this than OP wants us to know...

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