![]() ![]() ![]() Turnitin is receiving some pretty stiff competition these days from other "grammar" and "plagiarism" software apps and online sites. ![]() They don't look for similar writing styles they look for actual matching content (strings of words). What they're really looking for is matches of entire sentences that are much too complex to be explained by coincidence and entire paragraphs lifted from other sources without proper citations and quotation marks. Sometimes, they "flag" combinations of words that have just been written thousands of times, such as "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939" or "The four functions of management are planning, organizing, directing, and controlling." That type of thing is understood by the users of scanners not to be plagiarism, necessarily, simply because there are only so many ways to word those ideas. They also highlight them and indicate exactly where the same sentences or paragraphs or whatever were found so that whoever is doing the search can go check them. They search for combinations of words in the work submitted that match the same combinations of words found in sources that are searchable online. ![]()
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