u/Hannah97474

Hey everyone im a junior in college and my prof just assigned this big research paper thats due in a few weeks. Im already panicking because last time my similarity score was higher than i thought even though i wrote everything myself. Does anyone have tips for making sure the draft stays under like 15 percent before i even finish the first version? Also how accurate is the AI detection part really? My school is super strict about it now. Any advice would help im trying not to lose sleep over this

hey yall im a junior college student and i swear i wrote this history essay myself but turnitin gave it like 80% ai score?? i spent hours on it typing everything out and now my prof is gonna think i cheated. anyone else deal with this in community college classes? how did u fix it or prove it was yours? super stressed rn 😭

hey yall just finished a big paper for my lit class and the turnitin ai score came back way higher than i expected. i wrote every word myself but i did fix a ton of grammar with some online help and reworded a bunch of stuff from my notes. is that enough to trigger it or should i rewrite more? anyone else deal with this and get it down to normal? super stressed bc the prof is strict about originality lol

saw that story about the brown university prof who went to take home exams and realized basically everyone was using ai to cheat. it really got me wondering how turnitin is supposed to keep up with all that. like is it catching these generated papers or are we all getting away with similar stuff now? my classes use turnitin a ton but i dont know if the similarity score even means anything when ai is involved. has anyone else noticed this happening or got tips on what actually gets flagged?

Hey everyone! Junior college here and I made the dumb decision to stack Calc, Chem, and intro coding all in one summer session. Classes are flying by and every single lab report or assignment has to go through Turnitin. My originality keeps coming back 35-45% even when I swear I wrote everything myself. Its stressing me out because I rewrite whole sections and still get flagged for common phrases or sources. Anyone else dealing with this combo of burnout plus constant originality checks? What actually helps lower those scores without rewriting your entire paper 5 times? Also open to any study tips that kept you sane during heavy summer loads.

Ugh yall I swear this class is trying to kill me. Im a junior at community college doing this research paper on local history and I wrote everything from scratch using my notes from last semester. But Turnitin flagged a bunch of my own sentences as matching some random site. It was literally just common phrases like the event happened in 1923 or whatever. Now the prof wants me to rewrite half of it and im already behind on other stuff. Anyone else deal with this bs where your own words get picked up? How do you fix it without starting over?

hey yall im a junior college student and every time i turn in a paper i freak out that turnitin is gonna flag it even tho i did all the work myself. i try to change words around and cite everything but sometimes it still shows like 15 percent and i dont get why. anyone have tips for making sure it comes back clean without changing the whole thing? especially for those longer essays where youre pulling from a bunch of sources.

hey yall im a junior at community college and just started using turnitin for real this semester. i always type my rough ideas in my notes app first then copy paste into word. now turnitin is saying like 40 percent ai on stuff that is literally my handwriting from last week. is this normal or do i need to change how i brainstorm? also any tips for making sure my drafts dont get dinged before i even submit? super stressed about it especially since some professors are super strict on ai now.

im a junior in college trying to get back on track after some past issues and these ai detectors are stressing me out so bad. i just did a reflective essay for my lit class about my own experience with a book and it got flagged for being too formal?? like what am i supposed to do write like im texting my friends? it has my real thoughts and feelings but because i proofread it properly it thinks im cheating. anyone else dealing with this nonsense in their classes?

hey everyone as a junior college student ive noticed how stressful it is submitting anything these days. i write all my papers myself but after seeing stories of people getting flagged for no reason im now keeping like 10 versions of every doc plus handwritten notes. online classes make it worse because everything is typed. is this just me or are we all living in fear of ai detectors? what do you guys do to protect yourselves?

honestly im taking two summer classes right now and every single paper has to go through turnitin. i feel like im spending more time trying to reword stuff so it doesnt flag than actually learning the material. gen chem is already brutal with all the lab reports and then gov has these essay responses that are basically just rephrasing the readings. anyone else dealing with this and feeling like youre losing your mind over it? any quick tips that actually work without getting in trouble?

i wish there was a solution

What do you guys honestly think about turnitin?