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I had Turn It In mark my work as plagiarism some years ago and I had to fight for it. It was clear the teacher wasn’t doing their job and blindly following the tool.

What happened is that I did a Q&A worksheet but in each section of my report I reiterated the question in italics before answering it.

The reiterated questions of course came up as 100% plagiarism because they were just copied from the worksheet.

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This matches my experience pretty well. My high school was using it 15 years ago and it was a spotty, inconsistent morass even back then. Our papers were turned in over the course of the semester, and late into the year you’d get flagged for “plagiarizing” your own earlier paper.

> you’d get flagged for “plagiarizing” your own earlier paper

Wow I'd have been screwed, so many of my high school papers were just rewrites and improvements on stuff I wrote in earlier years.

Funny how it's the teachers that are plagiarizing the work of the tools.

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