I would like to know because I posted a question here a couple days ago.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AtIF1YtjHI._mZEI4ebkEl3sy6IX?qid=20061208151247AAzriJW
The paper I posted is just about exactly what I have exactly to turn in, and what I turned in on turnitin.com. Should I be worried about being confronted by my English teacher about this? Or does turnitin.com not check this site?
2006-12-10 12:58:42 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
I did my own work, the paper I submitted is mine as well is the one I put here. I'm just wondering if I should be worried about this.
2006-12-10 13:12:52 · update #1
According to their site...
'Every paper submitted is returned in the form of a customized Originality Report. Results are based on exhaustive searches of billions of pages from both current and archived instances of the internet, millions of student papers previously submitted to Turnitin, and commercial databases of journal articles and periodicals.'
I have a hunch that since your paper is posted on "yahoo", it will come up. But, who knows, maybe you'll get lucky and nothing will come up...keep your fingers crossed....
2006-12-10 13:29:49 · answer #1 · answered by Tori 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends on the degree of similarity. If you have sentences, chunks, pieces that are exactly the same then you're in trouble. If it's a lot of the same ideas and such I don't see it being a problem. Hopefully if you did use the paper as a source, you cited it
2006-12-10 13:06:55 · answer #2 · answered by Modus Operandi 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it checks more on papers turned in by previous students of the same course .. it can find verbatim direct quotes off the net, but I wouldn't be that concerned about either case. Do your own work and you don't have to be asking this question.
2006-12-10 13:06:38 · answer #3 · answered by moocow 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
better safe than sorry. turnitin pretty much checks the whole internet, and actually, it most likely will come up because yahoo gets some of its search results from "yahoo answers." so i'd cite your source.
2006-12-10 13:01:09 · answer #4 · answered by flowerchild 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋