A series of posts on modules conducted by NTU and NTU’s administration in general. Not necessarily negative, I leave you to draw your own conclusions.
Resisting the use of Turnitin
Why should you care ? Have you ever poured your heart and soul into an assignment, only to see it flagged for similarities that make no sense at all ?! Turnitin’s algorithm is merely just a glorified citation checker. Imagine writing an essay about climate change: “The impact of climate change on global ecosystems cannot be overstated”. Do you really expect yourself to cite a source for this ? Isn’t this common knowledge already by now ? Well chances are if you don’t bother to cite this, and continue to do so for the rest of your assignment, you are going to rack up similarity points like no tomorrow ! Well it might seem like a simple fix to just cite every single sentence that is not your “original” insights. ...