

If you copy parts of the text, as well as quotes and sources, Turnitin database will most likely find a match and indicate it in the report. It is the fact that the students innocently go to them for help, only to be conned in the end by having their hard work turned over to a third party, that makes this anti plagiarism situation a bad deal for the students. Every text submitted to Turnitin is checked on plagiarism, so the program can detect copy and paste. They don't really care if your paper is original or not, they only care that they can use the data in your paper as a marketing tool for their company. The truth is, all of these anti-plagiarism tools are just a means to an end for these companies. It is only meant to fleece you of your money and then the company that owns the software turns around and makes more money off the paper you thought you just had them check for plagiarism. So that means, anti-plagiarism softwares are not meant to help you.

The problem, is that these essays are all seen as big data by these companies so they do their best to keep as much of the information from the research paper on their servers for an indefinite period of time. Turnitin is receiving some pretty stiff competition these days from other "grammar" and "plagiarism" software apps and online sites. They don't look for similar writing styles they look for actual matching content (strings of words). What they're really looking for is matches of entire sentences that are much too complex to be explained by coincidence and entire paragraphs lifted from other sources without proper citations and quotation marks. Sometimes, they "flag" combinations of words that have just been written thousands of times, such as "Hitler invaded Poland on September 1, 1939" or "The four functions of management are planning, organizing, directing, and controlling." That type of thing is understood by the users of scanners not to be plagiarism, necessarily, simply because there are only so many ways to word those ideas. They also highlight them and indicate exactly where the same sentences or paragraphs or whatever were found so that whoever is doing the search can go check them. They search for combinations of words in the work submitted that match the same combinations of words found in sources that are searchable online.
