12 Free Plagiarism Checkers
Whether you are a blogger, student, professor or reader; it isn’t cool to take someone else’s work and call it your own.
Plagiarism is theft in my book. If you take my words and put them in your story line and publish or sell that content as your original work, you have stolen from me and have sold stolen property.
In the blogging world, we often purchase content (articles) from other bloggers or from VA’s (Virtual Assistants) to help us keep up with the work load. If you are a student, you might consider paying someone to help you with a report. Notice I did not say you should pay someone to write your term papers for you!
When I purchase material prepared by someone else, I always run the content through a plagiarism checker to see if I am paying for original material or something that was copied off another website.
Several companies offer subscription services for checking your articles, but I have found 12 Free Plagiarism Checkers that do the job!
Dust Ball – The Plagiarism Checker
Small Seo Tools – plagiarism checker
The best way to make sure you do not have a problem when writing, use your own words to tell the story. If you need to include excerpts or portions of reports written by another author, make sure to reference to their website or article to provide the correct credit for their work.
What do you use to check your work? Do you have a favorite program or service for this?
Well, I was thinking about your phrase “if you didn’t wrrite it – it does not belong to you”. And if i have a lot of ideas but i have no skills to realize them? I’m getting philological education. And i dont like writing! at all. I like learning languages and reading books. But not writing. And what is the most interesting – my parents are writers. When i was to write comparative essay – it was like a torture.
Sherryl, do you know that Unplag has recently launched a free plagiarism checker that can be used without a registration? It’s as fast and reliable as always.
Out of these I use duplichecker and comes out with good results.
Thanks for the awesome post and for linking up to Good Tips Tuesday. I need to use these on some of my posts to see if people are stealing them.
Thanks Sherryl, I use the website http://www.copyleaks.com to check if my site’s content has been copied. It’s free and i managed to find few sites that plagirized my work using it.
cheers,
Ben
That one is new to me. I will check it out and add it to the listing. Thanks!
It would never occur to me to use a checker b/c I would never steal someone else’s words. Hmmmm… Now I’ll have to check into that.
I don’t either, but I do purchase content and have guest articles submitted by other writers. I would love to assume they are all honest but sadly I have had articles submitted by others that were 79% copied! Scary and not something I want to promote by sharing without checking first.
So I do work as a VA; honestly, I’ve never thought about my clients running my work through a plagiarism checker. I suppose it makes sense though, since they don’t *know* me to know I wouldn’t copy/cheat.
I do agree that if I didn’t write it, it’s not mine. I may quote someone, but I give credit. I’d hate to think someone would steal my stuff and not put my name on it.
Great, now I’m paranoid LOL