Turnitin

Turnitin (stylised in lowercase) is a website that various schools use. The website is intended to point out errors and plagiarism. The website has some flaws to it.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) It is pretty much unnecessary, as Schoology exists for a reason, and Schoology has a turn in button, therefore making Turnitin.com useless and pointless.
 * 2) It can be complicated at times.
 * 3) It considers coincidental similarities as copies even if you didn't plagiarize your work. The author of this article (Pacsonic9000) had this happen to him. This is not limited to sources but also work from other classes which aren't in the same school.
 * 4) It cites ridiculous things as plagiarism, which includes:
 * 5) Words like "he" and "the"
 * 6) Names
 * 7) Any common information
 * 8) References
 * 9) Speaking of citing, you can have a quote from something and it says it's from something else. For example, a quote from The New York Times and it says that it's from another website.
 * 10) False advertising: It says that it encourages integration, but it does the exact opposite.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) It at least helps with some errors.
 * 2) When it works properly (if you know what we mean by that), it can stop actual plagiarism.

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