Timeline for What is the acceptable similarity in a mathematics PhD dissertation when checking by Turnitin?
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| May 24 at 16:43 | comment | added | Ray | "turnitin [marks] every reference in the bibliography as plagiarism" - Construct a document consisting entirely of a quote from a paper and the corresponding citation and reference, then show the resulting 100% plagiarism rating to whatever lunatic set a policy that uses a hard threshold on turnitin score instead of using it as a tool for shortlisting the papers that need a closer look. | |
| May 23 at 13:43 | history | edited | Sursula |
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| Jul 29, 2016 at 16:41 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @DimaPasechnik: well, if you're copying verbatim a standard citation block for the paper you're referencing, shouldn't you mark that as a direct quote and cite the standard source you got the citation text from? ;-) | |
| Sep 29, 2015 at 21:01 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | there are places out there that mandate the use of turnitin before PhD thesis submission; one such place is Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). They say it must not be above 30%. However, turnitin does bad job on PhD theses. It marks stuff like "Let G be a group" and every reference in the bibliography as plagiarism... | |
| Oct 25, 2014 at 3:59 | answer | added | Brian Borchers | timeline score: -1 | |
| Oct 24, 2014 at 20:04 | history | edited | enthu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 24, 2014 at 16:57 | answer | added | Zach Pollock | timeline score: -2 | |
| Oct 11, 2014 at 7:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackAcademia/status/520837622155849728 | ||
| S Oct 10, 2014 at 17:35 | history | suggested | Franck Dernoncourt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
add link to http://turnitin.com/
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| Oct 10, 2014 at 16:53 | comment | added | Wrzlprmft♦ | @FranckDernoncourt: I do not think anybody will need a link to Turnitin. See also this Meta discussion. | |
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| Oct 10, 2014 at 14:24 | answer | added | Anonymous Mathematician | timeline score: 17 | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 14:19 | comment | added | 410 gone | Surely you know whether or not you've plagiarised. If you have, you'll be removing that plagiarism before you submit, regardless of the Turnitin score. So why are you checking your own thesis with Turnitin? | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 14:09 | answer | added | Compass | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 14:02 | answer | added | StrongBad | timeline score: 11 | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 13:36 | history | reopened |
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| Oct 10, 2014 at 13:31 | history | edited | Nobody | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Change "accepted" to "acceptable" then vote to reopen
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| Oct 10, 2014 at 13:09 | history | edited | Sara | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 10, 2014 at 12:38 | history | closed |
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| Oct 10, 2014 at 11:30 | history | edited | Sara | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 10, 2014 at 11:21 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Oct 10, 2014 at 11:19 | comment | added | enthu | @Nora Yes, I know; but in the answers to the linked question there are some referred papers and reports which may help you find your answer. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 11:17 | comment | added | Sara | @EnthusiasticStudent, Yes, but the percentage for PhD thesis is different than the percentage for review articles | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 11:14 | comment | added | enthu | Different (but similar) question with good answers and comments is asked in this link: What is the range of percentage similarity of plagiarism for a review article? | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 11:08 | comment | added | DCTLib | Provided that we are speaking about the ratings provided by automated tools (somewhat implied by the "similarity"): the answer should probably be that it does not matter. Any single copied paragraph that is beyond coincidence is a reason for rejecting the thesis. At the same time, for a thesis, someone should definitely check all potential cases of plagiarism that an automated tool provides. Otherwise the department would use the automated checking tool in a plain wrong way. If the rating is "90% plagiarism", but all cases found by the tool are false-positives, then this should be fine. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 11:08 | history | edited | Wrzlprmft♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 10, 2014 at 10:45 | comment | added | user21984 | I would imagine that this would vary for university to university. | |
| Oct 10, 2014 at 10:42 | history | asked | Sara | CC BY-SA 3.0 |