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UCAS plaigarism

I'm just about to send off my UCAS form but I'm worried about the plagiarism checks. Basically I wrote a full statement and then I had help to rephrase it so it flowed better. Is that classed as plagiarism even though the content and thought is all mine, just some of the wording isn't? (I haven't copied anyone else's work from online or anything)
No, that's not plagiarism.
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Original post by TheSownRose
No, that's not plagiarism.


Ok, thanks. So will the system only pick up things that are copied from someone/thing else?
Original post by oliviarheya
Ok, thanks. So will the system only pick up things that are copied from someone/thing else?


Yes. It isn't clever enough to know whether it was you, your teacher, or your cat that wrote your statement. All it can pick up is whether anything written matches something already on its database, so if you copied from another source.

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