How many of you out there go to
schools that use the program Turnitin.com for tackling the problem with
plagiarism in the classroom? Well, in doing some research it seems as if Turnitin is a violation of students' intellectual property rights on a large scale. Yet this hasn't been proven in a court of law as reported by the website Essayfraud.org. Essayfraud.org had further incited that Turnitin is in fact unreliable, ineffective, and misleading in terms of finding plagiarism. The professors and instructors in many colleges and
universities may have disagreed about the effectiveness of Turnitin, but yet they know of instances of actual intentional/unintentional
plagiarism and the
secret is that they'll never know about the 'intelligent'
plagiarism that's totally undetectable to Turnitin. What some professors are clueless about is that Turnitin only seems accurate in catching the word for word plagiarism. The program is rendered useless if a student uses a dictionary or thesaurus. According to Essayfraud.org Turnitin is also completely incompetent in detecting
work done by ghostwriters (someone paid to do the
writing and research) from scratch. This kind of why it's easier for professors to use their own method of checking papers for
plagiarism and copyright infringement than to rely on a software program to do the
work for them essentially taking the lazy way out of actually doing the
job of a real professor or instructor. If school officials actually took the time to weigh their options with the pros and cons of using Turnitin through communication with educators on
Internet forums, message boards, articles, blogs, or any kind of system to give their honest opinion. They wouldn't really see any logical option, but to consider discontinuing the use of Turnitin in their educational institution. There are more cons than pros and as Essayfraud.org listed this is the full con list of why the Turnitin program is rendered ineffective.
This is the full con list that is on the website Essayfraud.org of why the Turn it in program is useless in classrooms:
It's no longer effective in deterring plagiarism
