We have this thing called 'turnitin' where it detects which parts you have plagiarised and it's so stupid because it will no joke highlight words like
'The' and 'it' or 'acid' - generic words or names, and say that I plagiarised them.
When doing research papers, it will be virtually impossible to have a 0% plagarized paper because of using staple words like "the" and "of" and there are instances where wording something differently from the original source just makes the sentence worse.
Yeah I know about this thing too. Luckily none of my teachers use it, but I checked a paper on it once just out of curiosity and it told me it was about 80% plagiarized, even though the sources I used were in a different language. And of course it highlighted the words you mentioned like "the" and "of" and "it", and also fixed expressions and specific terms which you quite obviously cannot paraphrase. I got more curious and pasted in a short story that I wrote, 100% work of fiction and of my own imagination, and it told me it's about 40% plagiarized.
But that was some time ago and I hoped they improved it since then but as I read the comments I'm becoming more convinced that they didn't.
How long ago? When I used it back in 2014, the only paper it cried plagiarism on was the research paper, and even then, it was only 13%. And I highly doubt that I avoided using staple words.
I think it might've been like 2012. Yeah I think it was 2012 because the fiction I wrote was slightly inspired by the whole "end of the world" panic that happened back then.
'The' and 'it' or 'acid' - generic words or names, and say that I plagiarised them.
Fortunately, the professor told us that turnitin had some "quirks".
But that was some time ago and I hoped they improved it since then but as I read the comments I'm becoming more convinced that they didn't.