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Essay Plagairism

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  • 20-10-2010 12:26am
    #1
    kev9100
    Registered Users Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭


    Help.

    I just checked my plagairism report on safe assign and it says 25% and 0.0 next to possible points. I have no idea how this happened as I though I refrenced everything that needed to be referenced. Am I completely ****ed?


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    #2
    HavingCrack
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    kev9100 wrote: »
    Help.

    I just checked my plagairism report on safe assign and it says 25% and 0.0 next to possible points. I have no idea how this happened as I though I refrenced everything that needed to be referenced. Am I completely ****ed?

    Don't worry, if you've referenced its grand, literally nothing to worry about. One of mine came up at 35% before but it was fine.


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    convert
    Registered Users Posts: 9,338 ✭✭✭convert


    It depends on the system, but sometimes quotations or often used phrases are picked up as plagiarism. If you've referenced everything, then you should be fine.


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    parker kent
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    The 0.0 possible points line is nothing to worry about either. Either the lecturer has not put the grades onto Blackboard yet or else they are one of the many lecturers that never put the grades on Blackboard.


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    Gae
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    kev9100 wrote: »
    Help.

    I just checked my plagairism report on safe assign and it says 25% and 0.0 next to possible points. I have no idea how this happened as I though I refrenced everything that needed to be referenced. Am I completely ****ed?

    SafeAssign doesn't check whether you referenced things properly - it simply looks for identical text in various sources. If you included a few quotations and referenced them properly then that's not plagiarism. Another student who used the same quotations and didn't reference them would be guilty of plagiarism. Either way, the score returned by SafeAssign would be the same.


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    #6
    kev9100
    Registered Users Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭kev9100


    Cheers guys. I'm grand now but I was absolutely panicking last night.


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