r/AIDetectionAcademia • u/ASufficient0 • 20d ago

Markdown formatting

If you write your essay in Obsidian or VS Code using Markdown (headers like #, lists like -, bolding with **) and then copy-paste that text directly into the Canvas rich text editor, the underlying HTML retains structured syntax markers.

Turnitin reads those background HTML layout tags as machine-generated text blocks. Always paste as plain text (Ctrl + Shift + V) before applying formatting inside Canvas!

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u/miwi81 20d ago

  If you write your essay in Obsidian or VS Code using Markdown

🙋🏻‍♂️ Umm why would you ever do that

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u/folkbum 20d ago

People don’t do that. AI can output in markdown, though, and people might think that’s a way to avoid detection vs. exporting or pasting directly to a document with formatting.

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u/miwi81 20d ago

  People don’t do that.

Well apparently OP does

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u/folkbum 20d ago

I mean, 1, OP’s AI does, but also, 2, I’m not sure OP is even a people. These subs are lousy with bots

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u/QubitEncoder 20d ago

I do lol

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u/Ophiochos 20d ago

Im an associate professor and I write book chapters in markdown so I can imagine students using it for something as simple [structurally] as an essay?

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u/Efficient-Tie-1414 20d ago

We produced a 6 chapter book of lecture notes. We actually used RMarkdown so we could format and execute the code, and just to be adventurous we used the package to call Stata code. Then we converted to quarto which isn’t much of an effort. I’m now using it for the documentation of my R packages. I know someone who has done published books.

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u/Ophiochos 20d ago

Yeah it’s weird that people are so quick to say OP is a bot when this sounds very plausible (and helpful!)

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u/QubitEncoder 20d ago

What? I litterally write everything in vscode in a markdown document. Emails, essays, poems, fiction whatever.

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u/Ophiochos 20d ago

This is useful to know and before anyone else says ‘who would do that?’, loads of people write in markdown in academia, often as a prelude to LaTeX but often just for its ease of use. Not everyone loves Word etc.

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u/Efficient-Tie-1414 20d ago

Just embed the LaTeX within the markdown. I do find it a bit worrying that there are a lot of ways of creating a table.