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Does Turnitin Detect Chegg and Course Hero?
Partly, and probably not in the way you are worried about. Turnitin's crawler indexes public web pages, so anything from Chegg or Course Hero sitting on an open page can turn up as a match. What it…
Falsely Accused of Plagiarism? Do These 5 Things First
The email arrives with a meeting time attached and very little else. Your instructor has reported your paper. You did not copy anything, you have no idea which passage triggered this, and the meeting…
Patchwriting: The Plagiarism You Don't Know You're Doing
You changed every third word, rearranged a clause, and put the citation at the end. That is not paraphrasing. It has a name, researchers have been studying it since 1993, and it is the most common…
How Plagiarism Checkers Actually Work
A plagiarism checker never actually reads your paper against the internet. It cannot. Comparing your 2,000 words to billions of documents word by word would take longer than your degree. What it does…
How to Paraphrase Without Plagiarizing (Before/After Examples)
You swapped a few words for synonyms, moved a clause to the front, stuck a citation on the end. It felt like paraphrasing. Then the checker highlighted it anyway, and a marker reading closely can…
Do Free Plagiarism Checkers Keep Your Paper? I Read 10 Privacy Policies
I spent a day reading the privacy policies of ten free plagiarism checkers, looking for one answer: after the scan finishes, what happens to your paper? Two of them say your text may be used to train…
Turnitin Flagged Text You Cited. Here's Why
Turnitin does not know what a citation is. It matches strings of text against an index and highlights whatever it finds, then leaves every judgment about attribution to a human. Your properly quoted,…
What's an Acceptable Turnitin Similarity Score?
There isn't one, and that is the honest answer. Turnitin has never published an acceptable percentage, and most universities have not bothered to either. The number students trade on forums, usually…
What Counts as Plagiarism When You Used ChatGPT to Write It
A grad student emailed me in April, half panicked. Her advisor's syllabus said "undisclosed AI use will be treated as academic dishonesty," and she'd asked ChatGPT to tighten a rough paragraph in her…