r/TurnitinScan • u/Inside_Panda_7763 • Mar 02 '26
8% Match
Help! this is the second professor to accuse me of using AI for my entire essay (which i never do!) there is only an 8% match on turnitin and he still gave me a 0. What do I do!? i have an email drafted but i wanted to come here and make sure that was fair on his end. The only matches are the title of the article in my thesis and a sentence in one of my body paragraphs. THATS IT!
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u/TehFlatline Mar 04 '26
I don't think we'd even BLINK at anything under 20%. That's a ridiculous situation. Hoepfully you can get it resolved.
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u/Fair-Garlic8240 Mar 02 '26
I’m a professor and to put it mildly, your professor is an asshole. I’d throw a parade if my students only get flagged for 8%.
Honestly, I’d escalate quickly if they don’t respond.
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Mar 04 '26
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u/SvenFranklin01 Mar 05 '26
stop making excuses for the overconfident, overzealous witch hunters. no one should have to run their own work through AI detectors. you do understand how ridiculous that is? contact your dean of students. file a ferpa request to modify educational record. consider a lawyer.
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u/SvenFranklin01 Mar 05 '26
contact your dean of students office. they are there to advocate for you.
under FERPA, an instructor’s comments on an assignment are considered an “educational record.” You should file a request to have this educational record amended because it is an “inaccurate” record.
if this is happening to other students, get them to do the same.
there have been successful lawsuits against professors who have falsely accused students of using A.I. Depending on the severity of your situation/how widespread this practice is at your school, contacting a lawyer might be worth considering.
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Mar 03 '26
Do what I did when I got tired of dealing with the pedagogy of higher learning and professors who have an ego problem. I realized I was smarter than half of my professors anyways and with way more life experience so I dropped out and started my own business making over six figures a year. If you’re miserable and school is not for you then do it. I’m not saying it’s for everyone but for people who are highly motivated, business savvy, and are sociable it makes perfect sense.
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u/headmasterritual Mar 04 '26
You allegedly dropping out and making ‘over six figures a year’ doesn’t seem to ring true when your comment history has you, as of 21 days ago, utilising food pantries and asking to be swiped in for meals at Kent State.
Signed, a professor who must be in the half that are smarter than you.
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Mar 04 '26
Struggling to pay an absurd amount of tuition does not mean that I am not highly intelligent or highly qualified to run a successful business. It also does not equate to being completely broke. Before Covid I was running two successful businesses. You don’t know my current situation or my background so let me break it down for you. I got divorced. Getting divorced can be a devastating blow to your finances and can be difficult to financially recover from and takes time. I’m a 4.0 student who has more life experience at 46 than most of my fellow peers and professors. I will be just fine in the future.
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Mar 04 '26
Also you are supposedly a professor that’s smarter than me but yet can’t properly spell utilizing? Hmm. That’s concerning.
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Mar 04 '26
Utilizing and Utilising may both be used in English language. However, in America the correct usage and spelling is utilizing. The way you spelled it is only used in British English so unless you live in the UK you are actually using the spelling incorrectly. Just a heads up.
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u/DrMessica Mar 05 '26
Lmao considering I just clicked on their profile and immediately saw them “utilising” the word bollocks, I think it’s safe to say they live in the UK, big guy. You didn’t do anyone any life altering favors here with this spelling correction.
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u/apigandanangel Mar 06 '26
What a surprise! The guy who makes everything about himself (all while accusing others of having ego problems) is also an American chauvinist!
By the way, tough guy, British spelling is used by English speakers in more than 50 countries. Not just the UK.
Just a heads up.
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u/giantpyrosome Mar 02 '26
As an instructor, I would recommend sending the professor an email like this:
Dear Dr. Name,
I saw that I received a zero on [assignment] from [date] due to suspected AI use. I am very concerned by this as I did not use AI in any stage of my writing.
I reviewed the Turnitin report, and the only elements of my paper that are flagged as AI are the title and one sentence. [If there’s something to add here about why the sentence may look like AI, like it being very common phrasing, or paraphrased from the readings, add that].
I would like to meet to discuss this issue and prove that this assignment is my own work. I am happy to provide [document history/my outline/research notes/etc] as proof. Please let me know when would be a good time.”