Grand Canyon RN-BSN

rob4546, BSN, MSN · Sep 28, 2014

Getting ready to submit my first paper......

RANT ON

I do not like TURN IT IN! Although my paper scored 14%, which is lower than the requested 20%, I am peeved that it hit on mundane text like in text citations of a journal authors names..... The words "at the baccalaureate level", and miscellaneous words like "health..... policy......to.......the". Like I assumed that I was the only one to use these words spread out over 2 or more sentences.....

Oh bother.....

RANT OFF

Hitting the final submission button is hard. It seems so final....

tokmom, BSN, RN · Sep 28, 2014

Go through a thesaurus, use Word to change some things around and you can drop your score pretty quick. Best thing to do is summarize what you read. Tii always made me very nervous, but my highest paper was 9%. And I usually ran under 5%.

Some of my papers like a lit review were very low and that made no sense when one had to copy the author and title.

tokmom, BSN, RN · Sep 28, 2014

Wanted to wish you good luck on your first paper!

PrismRN · Sep 28, 2014

I agree on the TII. One thing I wish it would do would be to stop adding the "knowns" into the percentage. The obvious things that you can't get away from - the title/running heads (which count on every.single.page.btw), the use of the words Grand Canyon University, all those things that turn pink that are pink because 10,000 students before you submitted a paper called "Compassion Fatigue". And the longer your title, the higher the percentage is for your overall paper. Depending on the length of one's paper, all those "knowns" may eat up 5% or more. If those things were removed from the tally, we'd end up with a score that accurately reflects the body of the paper and whether or not one plagiarized the content.

When I use Grammarly before every paper submission, it may give me a score of 8%. Then when I submit to TII, all of a sudden my score can jump to 12 or 15%. That's because Grammarly is searching the web only and doesn't have access to private institutions. TII searches the web, the GCU databank, and every other university that has paper assignments on the very same subjects in their curriculum.

rob4546, BSN, MSN · Sep 28, 2014

I have looked at the paper again (and again) and do not see anything that I would need to change that could constitute plagiarism. the term 4 year baccalaureate nursing program is/was not taken from any source. I agree with all the "knowns" in the paper. It didn't pick up anything except authors names and titles of research papers that were cited accurately. (I am assuming).

Not going to stress over it much, it is well below the threshold and also the first paper completed. Hoping that she is grading this like she grades everything else. (wouldn't mind a 100%)

rob4546, BSN, MSN · Sep 28, 2014

Forgot to ask, is Grammarly worth the cost? I usually have my wife read my papers (elementary school teacher) and she finds most of my errors. Ran this paper through grammerly and it didn't like it much. Wouldn't show me what I did wrong, required me to sign up. Wifey said she thought it was real good.

tokmom, BSN, RN · Sep 28, 2014

Forgot to ask, is Grammarly worth the cost? I usually have my wife read my papers (elementary school teacher) and she finds most of my errors. Ran this paper through grammerly and it didn't like it much. Wouldn't show me what I did wrong, required me to sign up. Wifey said she thought it was real good.

If you have a built in proof reader you probably are ok. I had the paid version that picked up passive sentences, fragments etc.. for that reason it worked well for me.

rob4546, BSN, MSN · Sep 28, 2014

I told myself that I wasn't going to make myself nuts about school work during my ADN-BSN. First paper submitted and what have I done? I made myself freaking crazy! :sniff: I have reworded many of the TII problems and now I am at a 9%. She would have been happy with the 14% but no....... I had to go for the extra 5 points off the similarity scale.... TII still marks me off for using the same page numbers in the upper right hand corner as most people use in their submitted papers. Can't do much about that.. :no:

I think I will do without Grammarly for now, unless this paper is a bomb!

derkfamily · Sep 29, 2014

I use Write Check because I have a Mac. It catches the grammar errors and checks for plagiarism. I used it for 2 papers and thought it worked fine. I also use a Thesaurus and have it up on a screen next to my paper I'm working on. I don't know what I would do without it. I also use PERRLA to write in APA format. Guess I need a lot of help when I write my papers! Oh well, I am from the typewriter era so that may explain everything!

tokmom, BSN, RN · Sep 29, 2014

I told myself that I wasn't going to make myself nuts about school work during my ADN-BSN. First paper submitted and what have I done? I made myself freaking crazy! I have reworded many of the TII problems and now I am at a 9%. She would have been happy with the 14% but no....... I had to go for the extra 5 points off the similarity scale.... TII still marks me off for using the same page numbers in the upper right hand corner as most people use in their submitted papers. Can't do much about that..
I think I will do without Grammarly for now, unless this paper is a bomb!

Welcome to the dark side of anal paper writing, bwhaha!

PrismRN · Sep 29, 2014

The husbster thinks its hilarious to yell out "SQUIRREL!" when he sees me settling in for my paper... same premise :roflmao:

PrismRN · Sep 29, 2014

I told myself that I wasn't going to make myself nuts about school work during my ADN-BSN. First paper submitted and what have I done? I made myself freaking crazy! I have reworded many of the TII problems and now I am at a 9%. She would have been happy with the 14% but no....... I had to go for the extra 5 points off the similarity scale.... TII still marks me off for using the same page numbers in the upper right hand corner as most people use in their submitted papers. Can't do much about that..

Oh no, please don't do that to yourself, nobody cares what your score is as long as it's under whatever the instructor said. I once turned in a 19% and felt just fiiiiine clicking that submit button!

So, to add to your TII neurosis, I thought I'd share with you my Sunday evening's installment of "why TII makes no sense to me"...

1. So I quoted the heck out of the Bible in this paper. Seriously. Quoted. As in copied and pasted entire verses from biblehub.com (all properly cited, of course). I probably had 10-12 actual pasted entries in my paper. Here's me when I clicked the TII submit button: :nailbiting: . waited, waited, waited, finally Report Received! Not ONE of those copied verses from the B*I*B*L*E is highlighted?? It's the Bible for crying out loud! And it's from the internet! TII picked up on all my running heads and something from some school paper at Shanghai International Community School on Sikh gurus, but not the Bible? Okay.

2. My 2nd assignment due tonight was the revision of a peer-graded paper that I had actually turned in in week 2. TII = 10% back on 9/7/14. Looked at the peer's recommendations for corrections to my paper, decided only to remove a "the" and add one comma, plus remove an extra space that had slipped into a reference. Oh, and I changed the title of the paper to add the words "Final Draft". Here's me again :nailbiting: at the TII juncture...knowing my entire paper was just submitted 3 weeks ago, so logically this thing ought to come back at 100%, right? I considered not doing TII, but the Instr said anything >500 words, and tonight's the last night of class so I was afraid if I royally messed up I wouldn't be able to find him to explain myself. So...waited, waited, waited...Report Received! TII = 10% :banghead: . The same misc nonsensical junk it picked up the first time.

Moral of the story: don't worry about TII, don't try to understand it, and for Pete's sake if it's