Warning!

CC BY-SA 2.0 Atlanta Scott

The internet can be a great resource for learning how to avoid plagiarism, but students should beware. There is also a lot of information available with supposed 'tips' on how to trick the anti-plagiarism software into thinking your work is genuine.

Some of these tricks include:

1. Putting the whole document in quotation marks
2. Replacing spaces with white text - Turnitin won't accept this as it detects the words are too long
3. Replacing every "e" with a foreign letter that looks like it, such as a Cyrillic e
4. Usings the Macros tool in Microsoft Word to hide copied text

The anti-plagiarism software has developed a series of complex algorithms to combat all these tricks and more. None of them work, and if you're caught trying them you may look even more guilty, so don't be fooled into thinking you can get away with plagiarism!