I have a Google Search for "student" and “cheat”, which occasionally turns up some interesting, if inflammatory, web sites. Here is one such, which is a little dated now. Tips for how to cheat Turnitin (Tuesday 12th April 2011) http://cheatturnitin.blogspot.ro/ also at http://cheatturnitin.blogspot.co.uk/ However, refining the search manually to “cheat” and “Turnitin” brings up some other interesting links: 1) Turnitin - Can Students "Trick" Turnitin? http://turnitin.com/en_us/resources/blog/421.../1650-can-students-trick-turn itin Some students believe that they can "beat" Turnitin by employing various tactics. ... was featured in the New York Times article, "To Stop Cheats, Colleges Learn … This is the official view 2) 100% WAY TO BEAT TURNITIN WHEN SUBMITTING ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU_3HFCeOvE 16 Sep 2011 - Uploaded by Binaural Beats for Relaxation, Healing, Astral, Chakra and Spirit This video will show you the easiest way to beat TURNITIN - Works 100% of the time I loved this comment: "nick nack2 months ago (edited) Well thanks to you i got kicked out of my program in college & this was my last yr smh" 3) How to Cheat Turnitin - The Chronicle of Higher Education http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,58811.0.html A long thread about the issue 4) How can you cheat turnitin.com? - Yahoo Answers https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090518155849AAugcGj 18 May 2009 - as long as you didn't plagiarize you should have nothing to worry about. ... there is only one way to beat turnitin, is by paying someone money to do … This was an interesting viewpoint: "Lou answered 5 years ago Even if you rewrite it you have to cite it, because you didn't come up with the facts you thats stealing. Turnitin also copies and stores Web content without permission. Unlike search engines, Turnitin gives absolutely nothing back to Webmasters. Turnitin just steals copies of copyrighted Web pages for their own profit, and TurnitinBot uses up Webmasters' bandwidth. You can read a lot more here: http://essayfraud.org/turnitin_john_barrie.html” which is cited by the poster (!) as from: http://www.essayscam.org/Forum/12/turnitin-system-how-work-92/ but not available. However, there is a discussion of its contents here: http://wrt-howard.syr.edu/stepaside/archives/2006/11/audience_purpos.html 5) Helping you beat Turnitin.com Since 2012 | MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/136502/Helping-you-beat-Turnitincom-Since-2012 10 Feb 2014 - As long as humans rank humans there's a motivation to cheat-- so ...... Turnitin and computational tools are completely useless, having no … This has a lot of discussion of bespoke essay banks and the woes of bringing a profit motive into education. 6) How to beat Turnitin | The Unemployed Professors Blog http://blog.unemployedprofessors.com/how-to-beat-turnitin-com/ 30 Mar 2012 - Yeah, universities are increasingly using TURNITIN so as to catch what they call ... I used TURNITIN when I was a graduate student, and a TA. The article itself is click bait and actually tells people that they can’t. However, some of the comments are interesting; varying from “I CAN cheat Turnitin!” to “Please tell me how you did it?" 7) Can students cheat or beat the Turnitin system? - ASK https://imperial.service-now.com/ict/faq.do?sysparm_document_key=kb_knowledg e,0524d1c62b5f0dc0bf4aab00f8da1505 25 Mar 2014 - For more information on potential problems with Turnitin go to our page on Turnitin Potential Problems Page(only staff have access to this ... Plagiarism software can be beaten by simple tech tricks … Sad that only Imperial staff have access to this :-( 8) http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/414881.article 20 Jan 2011 - ... has revealed that plagiarism detection systems such as Turnitin that are routinely used by universities are open to simple cheats allowing ... Replacing letters with Bezier curves… The mind boggles! -- Dr. Mike Reddy FRSA Future Technology and Games | Technoleg y Dyfodol a Gemau Engineering & Computing | Peirianneg a Chyfrifiadureg Newport City Campus | Campws y Ddinas, Casnewdd University of South Wales | Prifysgol De Cymru, Usk Way | Heol Wysg Newport | Casnewydd NP20 2BP Tel | Ffôn: 01633 432 452 Fax | Ffacs: 01633 432307 Mob | Symudol: 07971 170 199 http://www.southwales.ac.uk <http://www.southwales.ac.uk/> Confidential and legally privileged information may be contained in this message. 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