Monday 12 April 2010

Rupster says " About Turitin"

The week was suppose to be a mid term break. But it was worst that a normal going to class day! The whole week went by sleepless. Well not really but just a few hours. The shortest was just 4 hours!

It was a assignment and party planning week! And both of these is never easy. Never under estimate both of these. Thankfully, assignment was finished just in time for party decorations time. But Rupster was still not very in the decoration mode, because this particular assignment needed Turnitin.

Turnitin is a software where you upload your assignment, and it would detect the level of plagarism. Even if you never plagarised, somewhere around it there could be a similarity with your work. Yes this software is so cool because it also detects things that you never plagarised it makes it not to be nice. For instance, if you had referanced a book written and there had been another person who had used the book, it indicated you have plagarised.

So all you have to do is register yourself in based on your studying institution and than upload your work. Within less than an hours time your work will be checked and results will be out. If your plagirism level is high, you would need to reedit your work and resubmit again. That again depends on what setting did the tutor had set for the students. 

Thus, after submitting the first draft to Turnitin, it was time to start preaparing for the party. Rupster took every half an hour gap to check her work. It was weired because Turnitin usually sends the report very fast, but that day it was so long. Until it passed mid-night, that when Rupster realised she has been checking the wrong place. Mange to track back the correct place and check the results. 15% of plagarised. Which is very good! Was very surprising but glad it was not that after all. Finally mange to give 100% concentration for the decoration work!

So that was a total of 5 days lacking of sleep but still going strong. Party turned out to be successful after lots of plannings and running about. It was fun and cool too. Now its back to BED before getting started with the remaining assignments in hand!!!!

2 comments:

woaini_87 said...

i hate the software.... referencing oso can say i plagiarize for instance (robert,2005), itu oso 1%. siao software

Rupster said...

yea lor....even my cover page with my lecture's name also kena!!! siowww