What significant things have I done today?

[Griffin NoName]

If I see this correctly, this is the 30000th view of this comparatively short thread. Impressive.

Well, it is about "significant" things 

How does the plagiarism software distinguish 'legal' quotes from plagiarizing ones?

It often doesn't. In fact I am not sure it does at all. You have to look through the report and see if a match has a citation following it. Then you can "discount" it. Except all matches count towards an overall match score.  It even matches "snippets" so you might get "Napoleon's ship went down in battle". Which is what is worrying me.

You are allowed up to a 10% match score. If you get more than 10% then you can't submit it, or if you do it will be failed by the marker as plagiarised.  The really stupid thing is it doesn't distinguish the title page or the bibliography and so it always matches the whole bibliography which sends the score into the high 20's - you can click "ignore bibliography" but this doesn't work properly. It's truly awful software and very stupid. 

[Swatopluk]

Evasion by spellink ährohrs possible?

[Griffin NoName]

No but "Napolean's tub that floated on sea water went down when heavily engaged with another such tub belonging to a different protagenist" would do it. My essay is full of very convoluted sentences* where nothing is described as it should be. It makes a complete nonesense of essay writing and should be anathema to any decent university.** It's a gross lowering of standards IMO.

* it probably reads like the "two-word story"

**which mine supposedly is - in top twenty

So today: 170 words. Now 2873/3000. I am scraping the barrel for sentences now. I want to push it well over the 3000 so it doesn't look as if I was desperate to stop writing. As for the conclusion, I can't think of anything sensible to say at all.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

What you need is a synonym software to avoid detection, ie: ...Napoleon's vessel...

[Griffin NoName]

What you need is a synonym software to avoid detection, ie: ...Napoleon's vessel...

Every essay we write gets added into the database for the plagiarism software and they don't seem to change the essay titles, so pretty well every synonym will have been used by someone !!  Napolean's floating armoury ?

[pieces o nine]

So today: 170 words. Now 2873/3000. I am scraping the barrel for sentences now. I want to push it well over the 3000 so it doesn't look as if I was desperate to stop writing. As for the conclusion, I can't think of anything sensible to say at all.

   35 WORDS!         100 WORDS!         35WORDS!     

How about, "So that about sums it up."

[Swatopluk]

The Corsian's man-o-war got sent to the bottom by one of perfidious Albion's crafts after an extended exchange of broadsides.

[Griffin NoName]

The Corsian's man-o-war got sent to the bottom by one of perfidious Albion's crafts after an extended exchange of broadsides.

I'll hire you to rewrite my essay !

How about, "So that about sums it up."

Too short !!

No words today. Too tired. Slept.

[anthrobabe]

Well I did get some stuff transferred from my living room to the storage building I hired for the express purpose of not having so much stuff in my living room. However I haven't written anything today (does this count).

[Swatopluk]

The Corsian's man-o-war got sent to the bottom by one of perfidious Albion's crafts after an extended exchange of broadsides.

I'll hire you to rewrite my essay !

I guess the above is not impartial enough. And the bias would, I assume, be unwise to choose for a British target audience.

[Griffin NoName]

Well I did get some stuff transferred from my living room to the storage building I hired for the express purpose of not having so much stuff in my living room.

I just watched a documentary about a woman who hords and was using a storgae facility for he same purpose but also to have enough room to sort stuff to throw out - her house was so full of junk her 13 year old had no room to even sleep and had to live elsewhere.

However I haven't written anything today (does this count).

I guess the above is not impartial enough. And the bias would, I assume, be unwise to choose for a British target audience.

Indeed. Bias is always suspect. I just decided not to put in my essay a claim that unsatisfactory resolution of the Oedipus crisis leads to homosexuality !!!!!!  (I found this on a website................).

Today 214 words. Although I wrote much more and took most out again. I managed a conclusion ok. Count now 3087/3000 and tomorrow I attempt the anti-plagiariser.  Scarey 

[pieces o nine]

100 WORDS!         100 WORDS!         14 WORDS!        

[Aggie]

Today 214 words. Although I wrote much more and took most out again. I managed a conclusion ok. Count now 3087/3000 and tomorrow I attempt the anti-plagiariser.  Scarey  

Since last post:  Went mountain biking, hiking, camping, canoeing, fishing (nice dusky little rainbow trout), ate some bacon; today I tried downhilling (mountain bike) and nearly lost my junk on a poorly executed jump. 

[Opsa]

Ahhhhhh.... is there any fish more heavenly than fresh rainbow trout?

[Aggie]

That one got put back to live another day; it was only about 7" but poissobly the largest fish in the little lake we were at.  It's on Crown land but is a bit remote with a rough access so we had a campsite and lake to ourselves, with an old canoe to paddle around in.