Does Turnitin Detect QuillBot?

Turnitin and Quillbot are two of the most recognizable products in the field of online learning. And while they may serve different purposes, some wonder whether Turnitin can detect content paraphrased with Quillbot.

If you don’t know these two products, here’s what they do. Turnitin is simply a web-based originality checking and plagiarism prevention system primarily used by tertiary institutions. On the other hand, QuillBot is an online tool that leverages artificial intelligence to rewrite content.

Before we delve deeper into the subject, let’s take a look at how each application functions. If you’d like to also find out whether other plagiarism checkers like SafeAssign can detect QuillBot paraphrasing, simply click this link.

What Is Turnitin And How Does It Work

As stated above, Turnitin is a text-matching software that is used to detect plagiarism in assignments in online environments. Plagiarism checkers are used by educational institutions to ensure academic integrity.

It works by comparing uploaded content with Google’s index, Turnitin’s own databases of student submissions and books, newspapers, journals from other publishers, library databases, digital reference collections, and subscription-based publications.

Turnitin is one of the most used plagiarism checkers by various tertiary institutions and is also integrated into the assignment tools in these institutions’ learning management systems.

This makes it easier for these institutions to check for similarities in student assignments and other academic deliverables when documents are uploaded for grading. Any uploaded assignment is automatically scanned by Turnitin directly through the school’s learning management system.

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What Is QuillBot And How Does It Work

QuillBot is an online tool that leverages artificial intelligence to rewrite content. The system uses state-of-the-art AI to improve writing by rewriting articles, paragraphs, sentences, and other forms of writing.

QuillBot can be used on the web and also integrates directly into Google Docs, Chrome, and Microsoft Word making it easy to rewrite your content.

To get started simply visit their website and input a sentence or paragraph you’d like to paraphrase. QuillBot will then paraphrase the article, paragraph, or sentence within seconds.

Users can also hit “Rephrase” for different variations of the paraphrased content and also leverage the inbuilt thesaurus to change additional texts. Simply click on any paraphrased word to be given a drop-down thesaurus to make the necessary change to any word or words.

Does Turnitin Detect QuillBot

Now that we have a better understanding of what these two products are and how they work, let’s try and answer the question.

No, QuillBot cannot be detected by Turnitin. QuillBot employs state-of-the-art artificial intelligence to replace words with synonyms and to alter the sequence of sentences and paragraphs, rendering plagiarism checkers ineffective.

Turnitin and most other plagiarism checkers simply find similar grammatical patterns, phrases, and sentence structures in uploaded content. Unfortunately, sentences restructured by QuillBot cannot be detected by these plagiarism or similarity checkers.

Can QuillBot Be Detected

No, plagiarism checkers like Turnitin and SafeAssign cannot detect QuillBot as it uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence to change phrase and sentence sequences. On the other hand, plagiarism checkers simply check comparable phrases and sentence patterns making it difficult to detect restructured sentences by QuillBot.

That said, some paraphrasing tools that simply change a few words with synonyms may sometimes be detected by plagiarism checkers. It’s therefore advisable to verify any paraphrased content before submission.

How QuillBot Beats Turnitin

Plagiarism checkers like Turnitin are programmed with algorithms that break texts inside documents into short pieces and compare them with various sources including Google’s index, journals, and other publications, books, and in-house databases.

They simply take each set of words and compare the text with any documents from any of the above sources to determine similarity. The process is then repeated to identify any similar content with other documents in the search criteria.

QuillBot simply takes each sentence, rephrases it, and also use synonyms to rewrite sentences making them appear as unique content. Depending on the mode selected in QuillBot, delivered content can be unrecognizable to most modern plagiarism checkers.

Can Turnitin Be Wrong

Turnitin, like the majority of premium plagiarism checkers, merely compares submissions to the existing database to find similarities. It is important to emphasize that plagiarism checkers do not detect plagiarism; instead, they compare submissions to existing content to uncover similarities.

The similarities are then provided in a color-coded report for easier reading and analysis. While this is useful, Turnitin has its limitations as:

• It’s unable to check against content outside its available database comprising of current and archived web content that is publicly available, books, newspapers, and journals (through its partnerships with publishers, library databases, digital reference collections, and subscription-based publications), and student papers submitted to Turnitin. This means that any content that is not in Turnitin’s database cannot be used in similarity tests. As a result, any submission from another university that used a different plagiarism checker may be unavailable for use in Turnitin’s comparison test.
• It may flag appropriately cited materials as instances of plagiarism during similarity tests. Instructors, therefore, need to confirm each instance of similarity to clarify or identify plagiarism.
• Papers with a lot of references could have a high similarity index on initial look. Turnitin like most plagiarism or similarity checkers do not detect plagiarism but simply detects similarity and presents results for interpretation. Instructors can opt to exclude references from similarity checks. In the event that references aren’t excluded, the instructor would need to review similarity reports.
• Earlier drafts uploaded to the system could lead to subsequent submissions being flagged as plagiarized content. This can result from Turnitin storing previous submissions in its database. In such an event, contacting the instructor to clarify the issue is the best approach. Most teachers would also this mistake especially if the previous submission shows the exact date, it was uploaded and the identity of the student who uploaded the content.

Can Turnitin Detect Copy And Paste

Turnitin, as a plagiarism detection tool, detects unoriginal content by identifying areas of overlap between existing works and submitted assignments. Copy-pasted content would easily be identified, flagged, and presented in the similarity report.

It’s worth noting that copy-pasted content from sources that are not included in Turnitin’s similarity checks would be undetected by Turnitin during similarity checks.

Acceptable Turnitin Percentage

Most educational institutions consider any plagiarism index on Turnitin’s originality reports that exceed 30% to be bad if similarity excludes sources and quotes. When no filters are used to exclude sources from an originality test, a similarity report may indicate a higher plagiarism index depending on the length of your submission and the number of sources cited.

Turnitin’s color-coded originality report includes a source list that allows instructors to easily identify the origin of each matching text, including the references list. Most instructors will ignore the reference list if it contains the majority of the plagiarism in a report.