With Mark and the kids out of town for the day to a family birthday party, I had plenty of time and quietness to work on the papers I have to write for my nursing class. My goal was to write both, but realistically, getting one paper done will help in getting a head start so the course will not affect our family's sanity - too much.
So, I'm happy to say I wrote one of the papers today and the reference list for the second one. The topic I chose for the first paper ended up being "Preventing MRSA in neonatal nurseries."
Oddly, though, our professor is having us submit our papers online at Turn In In dot-com. I've never used it before, so I'm curious about how it works. Apparently, it is a site that helps professors judge the originality of the paper. My question is, What if you are just a good writer? Will the site judge you "non-original" if you have blatantly copied script from a published source or will having a significantly scholarly paper sound off the alarms?
I'm not saying my writing will be "significantly scholarly" --- But.. what if?
I submitted the paper and we will see, I suppose...because I know that I wrote that darn thing here today....sitting on the couch while taking some breaks to zoom through a recorded Y&R or two.... you know.
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my experience with turnitin.com is that it searches for word-for-word matches by comparing a paper to that of your peers and also online resources. It will come back with a percentage..... 5% matched, 15%, 50%, etc. Its then up to the prof to discern if that 5% is the portion that you cited, or is indeed "stolen".... at least that's how I've used it....
I guess I should clarify....it highlights the matches if it finds them and your prof will see if you cited or not, etc.
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