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.
xx000o 27
You can't be to careful these days.
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CupOfCoffee 14
Wow, that is too stupid to put into words. I hope you talked about it and they let you hand your paper (or whatever it was) in anyway.
alicat13 12
Well then, don't do it again :-)
ihpp 22
oh I loathed turn it it. I had a creative writing class and it never accepted my poems!
Igloolik 9
Turn It In is horrible. I am so glad that I'll be out of school in the Fall and won't have to deal with it anymore!
channelmonica 17
Lol turnitin.com I'm guessing. Same thing with everyone.
lifeofcats 1
Once turn it in said I had plagiarized about 20% of an essay about Macbeth... What did it highlight? The fact that I used words like macbeth and blood in the same sentence.
vb68_fml 28
Smart teacher you have there!
maggiefox 25
Must be turnitin.com
deathrowdiesel 2
Well if it thinks your last name is plagiarized then the program aint workin right
MrZsDad 19
I worked with a guy named James Joyce. It kind of os possible, he wasn't a famous author, but he wa a crafty thief.
strawberrywine22 30
Um. What?