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Turnitin is was and always will be complete FUD. Universities use it to pretend like they care about plagiarism, while turning the other cheek when large groups
by tmpz22 6y ago
Turnitin is was and always will be complete FUD. Universities use it to pretend like they care about plagiarism, while turning the other cheek when large groups of international students are caught blatantly cheating.
- dependenttypes 6y agoIs this a common occurence? My classmate was complaining to me back when I was in uni about how a group of students from her ethnic group were not punished when they were caught cheating and so did a PhD student about a similar event.
- londons_explore 6y agoThere are ways around turnitin... like using similar-looking unicode characters.
- tmpz22 6y agoI wouldn't blame a particular ethnic group, I think its purely due to the economics of international students paying 2x or more in tuition compared to other groups. At my school international students were paying 70k-80k a year, not to mention their contributions to the local economy in terms of rent, food, cars, etc. Likely universities always want to keep statistics of plagiarism, drop-outs, and graduation rates, at certain levels as well.