I had the displeasure of using turnitin for a software engineering college course semi-recently (Long after this article was written). It was a nasty mess that

I had the displeasure of using turnitin for a software engineering college course semi-recently (Long after this article was written). It was a nasty mess that would scream at you whenever you quoted a source or referenced something and would get snagged on small commonly used interjections ALL THE TIME. Some people ITT are saying how it's still up to the teacher's discretion whether you've plagiarised or not ...NOPE! At the college I went to (and this seems to be a common experience looking at the thread) there were hard limits of how much it could flag before you had to resubmit. What a joke. The teachers were nice and would let it slip if it was really stupid but it still was russian roulette any time I had to submit something. NOT FUN.