> the solution is to simply assuage those fears The parent commenter's experience suggests that teachers are not doing that; instead, they're encouraging peopl

> the solution is to simply assuage those fears The parent commenter's experience suggests that teachers are not doing that; instead, they're encouraging people to rewrite non-plagiarised work so that it doesn't trigger partial matches. That is my experience too: teachers don't want the hassle of figuring out what a false positive really means.