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The Number 1 Reason to NOT post your essay here: PLAGIARISM CHECKERS
digmedia
3123 replies209 threads Senior Member
There is a sticky thread on this forum about why to NOT publish your essay here and most of the reasons have to do with others stealing your ideas or even your essay. But even if no one does that, there is an even more important reason: Plagiarism Checkers are often used, especially now with electronic submissions. And the plagiarism checker will find YOUR OWN ESSAY online and mark your submission as plagiarized.
I took one of the essays recently published in this forum of CC and ran it through a common plagiarism checker The result that came back: "WE HAVE DETECTED SIGNIFICANT PLAGIARISM IN THIS TEXT." We don't use real names here, so when a college gets back a report that an essay is plagiarized, there's no way they can tell that you were the original author, even if they try to follow up, which they might not have the time or inclination to do. You're majorly screwed by your own essay!
Fair warning.
47 replies I took one of the essays recently published in this forum of CC and ran it through a common plagiarism checker The result that came back: "WE HAVE DETECTED SIGNIFICANT PLAGIARISM IN THIS TEXT." We don't use real names here, so when a college gets back a report that an essay is plagiarized, there's no way they can tell that you were the original author, even if they try to follow up, which they might not have the time or inclination to do. You're majorly screwed by your own essay!
Fair warning.
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Replies to: The Number 1 Reason to NOT post your essay here: PLAGIARISM CHECKERS
You can't delete a post here. You have 20 minutes to edit your content. That's really not long enough to let someone read it before you delete the important parts.
Probably false assumption: they would contact you for clarification if they thought you'd copied other people's work.
Additional probably false assumption: they would understand digital signing enough to understand its non-repudiation properties.