Adam Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Submitted a portfolio today via Turnitin (2000 word essay and 1000 word report). The actual content of the essay and report came back with a 3% plagiarism score, but the cover sheet, plagiarism sheet and every single one of my references flagged up, making the score over 20%. Emailed the module leader to make her aware of the problem, basically to ensure that I didn't get penalised because of it. Got an email back saying that it hadn't happened to others, so the fault was basically my own. How the f**k can I be at fault for using the correct referencing style required and by using the official cover and plagiarism sheets provided by her?! Absolutely raging if this fucks me up. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexi Collector Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Submitted a portfolio today via Turnitin (2000 word essay and 1000 word report). The actual content of the essay and report came back with a 3% plagiarism score, but the cover sheet, plagiarism sheet and every single one of my references flagged up, making the score over 20%. Emailed the module leader to make her aware of the problem, basically to ensure that I didn't get penalised because of it. Got an email back saying that it hadn't happened to others, so the fault was basically my own. How the f**k can I be at fault for using the correct referencing style required and by using the official cover and plagiarism sheets provided by her?! Absolutely raging if this fucks me up. Sounds like you're in a lot of trouble to me, mate. Just gotta hope you don't get kicked off your course now. -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Sounds like you're in a lot of trouble to me, mate. Just gotta hope you don't get kicked off your course now. Sarcastic comments aside, someone did actually lose marks as a result of their high percentage of plagiarism in the first assignment for this module, even though her Turnitin score was only 4% for a 1000 word essay, with her cover page, plagiarism sheet and references taking her up to 24%. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Submitted a portfolio today via Turnitin (2000 word essay and 1000 word report). The actual content of the essay and report came back with a 3% plagiarism score, but the cover sheet, plagiarism sheet and every single one of my references flagged up, making the score over 20%. Emailed the module leader to make her aware of the problem, basically to ensure that I didn't get penalised because of it. Got an email back saying that it hadn't happened to others, so the fault was basically my own. How the f**k can I be at fault for using the correct referencing style required and by using the official cover and plagiarism sheets provided by her?! Absolutely raging if this fucks me up. Turnitin was designed to stop students buying essays online and submitting them. And for that purpose maybe it works. However, beyond that it is a complete joke and I'd be horrified if I was penalised because a system that is clearly complete bullshit gives some made up score. I got 4% or something for the essay I submitted today, couldn't give a shit. Although three of that percent came from a blog I didn't read. Why do you have to include the cover and plagerism sheet in the upload anyway? My draft was maybe 5% or something because I included the cover sheet (which had the question on it) so I didn't include it in the final submission. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Turnitin was designed to stop students buying essays online and submitting them. And for that purpose maybe it works. However, beyond that it is a complete joke and I'd be horrified if I was penalised because a system that is clearly complete bullshit gives some made up score. I got 4% or something for the essay I submitted today, couldn't give a shit. Although three of that percent came from a blog I didn't read. Why do you have to include the cover and plagerism sheet in the upload anyway? My draft was maybe 5% or something because I included the cover sheet (which had the question on it) so I didn't include it in the final submission. For this particular module we don't submit a hard copy of the portfolio, it's all done via Turnitin, such is the need for the two official papers at the start of the document. Thankfully we hand hard copies in for the other two modules so don't need to include the papers at the beginning of those that go to Turnitin. You're completely right though, it is an utter pile of shite. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowers Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 On the Turnitin topic, i handed in an essay to turn it in but it's never come back with a percentage or anything. Is this common? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_B Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Anything over 90% causes the program to fail... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GorgieRoad Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Put in an essay at ~50% plagiarism but didn't hear anything about it, we can check what's been plagiarised and it's almost always the bibliography and name etc. It's a load of pish. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 Completed last essay of this semester. Now for an evening in front of the television with a beer in hand and some shitty Kwistmas films. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kev23 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 turnitin is the biggest load of shite ever 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexi Collector Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 Signed my mate up for this. Think he'll really appreciate it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dorlomin Posted December 7, 2012 Share Posted December 7, 2012 How one Canadian uni is revealing exam stress http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/07/puppy-room-canadian-university 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 When I was at Uni, the main sport for students seemed to be Rugby, not just for playing but watching too. Football was very rarely mentioned! This always surprised me, is this still the case today? Or is it even a case? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 When I was at Uni, the main sport for students seemed to be Rugby, not just for playing but watching too. Football was very rarely mentioned! This always surprised me, is this still the case today? Or is it even a case? Depends who you hang about with really, my friends are mostly all pro-football but you do see a lot more groups when out in clubs that are rugby players, dressed in all the same attire. There are quite a lot of Irish at Dundee as well and they seem to be more interested in rugby. Personally I just think it's because folk think lassies love beefcakes strutting about the nightclubs thinking they're the dugs baws... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexi Collector Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 When I was at Uni, the main sport for students seemed to be Rugby, not just for playing but watching too. Football was very rarely mentioned! This always surprised me, is this still the case today? Or is it even a case? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sloop John B Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 When I was at Uni, the main sport for students seemed to be Rugby, not just for playing but watching too. Football was very rarely mentioned! This always surprised me, is this still the case today? Or is it even a case? At Edinburgh definitely, main for the fact it's a suburb of Cambridge, you get a lot of Irish folk as well as the Unay!!!! folk. If I'm not mistaken I think the rugby club are banned from having socials at quite a few nightclubs because they have a tendency to smash the place up. Their initiations sound horrific. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lexi Collector Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Irish students and rugby playing students are the two biggest groups of sleazy, aggressive wankers going. The Irish come over here with their dodgy passports to get them free education and basically just go out and try to shag all of our women, whilst leaving with a 2:2 in sports and excercise. Get them to f**k. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sloop John B Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Irish students and rugby playing students are the two biggest groups of sleazy, aggressive wankers going. The Irish come over here with their dodgy passports to get them free education and basically just go out and try to shag all of our women, whilst leaving with a 2:2 in sports and excercise. Get them to f**k. The Irish folk I've met have been quite nice. It's some of the ex Edinburgh private school folk (Watsons, Stu-Mel and Heriots are the ones I seem to encouter more) that are the worst, slimy anti social fannies with their shitey chants just to try and make up for the fact that their parents don't love them. I don't mind other ex private school folk outside of Edinburgh but there must be something in the water that makes them bawbags. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Master Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 So after a little over three years, I submitted my PhD thesis on Tuesday. I'm now in this sort of post-submission, pre-viva purgatory and keep thinking of sections that might have something wrong with them But I take heart from the stats - at Dundee Uni, 90%+ of theses that are submitted pass with minor corrections and only around 1% need a revise and resubmit or fail outright And even then, the vast majority of those were submitted without supervisor consent. It would be good, though, to know what the line between minor and major corrections is. So far, anything I've spotted can go down in the typo column, except maybe an incomplete reference (I didn't list the editors of the book, although I did in another reference to another paper in said book). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fraser Fyvie Posted December 13, 2012 Share Posted December 13, 2012 Does anyone know if there is any presentation work involved in engineering, accountancy or statistics degrees? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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