“My essay got 1% similarity in Turnitin, but my professor still says it’s plagiarism. What should I do?”
I
took my daughter to school this morning, and on the way we talked about
how I would not use Turnitin if I were still teaching for exactly this
reason — it generates false positives and the percentage of similarity,
unless it’s extremely high, is worthless as an indicator of actual
plagiarism.
Any instructor who accuses a student of plagiarism based solely on a Turnitin percentage is, in my mind, committing professional malpractice.
My suggestion? Escalate to the department chairperson.
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