Students need to double check their assignments for any minor plagiarism that might have happened in their literature. Do you know of any free website that checks for plagiarism suitable for graduate students?
Turnitin is indeed great - we use it at my school integrated into our LMS. However, it is not free.
I have had success in the past you Googling a phrase from a paper that seemed too good to be true.
Dear Mosavi,
"Turnitin" and "crossref" provides good results: You may use one of them. However, both of them are paid services.
http://turnitin.com/
http://www.ithenticate.com/products/crosscheck
Regards
Dileep
Please visit this link , we used it to scan reports of our students.
http://fr.scanmyessay.com/
Turnitin is one of the best, though it can highlight random words like "the, that, she, he etc" as plagiarism.
I had no idea that such websites exist! Thank you, Mosavi, for this information.
We are also using turnitin [ Http://www.turnitin.com/ ] for the mandatory plagiarism check, that is applied for each article, coming for our Management research journal [Parikalpana: KIIT Journal of Management; copies available at: http://www.ksom.ac.in/resources/kiit-journal-of-management/ ].
However, each software has its limitations (though limited); where the editor has to apply the common sense (as rightly mentioned by: Hephzber Obiorah ).
Other softwares are also coming equally handy.
There are many online services that check plagiarism. I had delivered a workshop on plagiarism awareness and different ways to overcome plagiarism in academic writings. Some of the sites that help identify plagiarism are given below. But I prefer to check with at-least two as sometimes common sentences are judged as plagiarized.
http://turnitin.com/
http://www.ithenticate.com/products/crosscheck
http://smallseotools.com/plagiarism-checker/
http://www.plagscan.com/seesources/
http://www.grammarly.com/plagiarism-checker/
http://fr.scanmyessay.com/
Dear Mosavi, Whilst there is software to help check for plagiarism, I think the most important thing to imbue in students is a strong sense of self discipline and academic rigour. One of the potential problems with some software is that if the student repeatedly submits his/her work to these sites, because it has already been added in an earlier draft, then the later draft is regarded as (self) plagiarised. That being said, Turnitin and cross ref are quite good sites. Hope this helps
http://turnitin.com/
http://www.ithenticate.com/products/crosscheck
Turnitin is indeed great - we use it at my school integrated into our LMS. However, it is not free.
I have had success in the past you Googling a phrase from a paper that seemed too good to be true.
We used to use Turnitin. Recently, BlackBoard (our learning platform), has incorporated a system for checking for plagiarism so we recently stopped using Turnit in.
As the question is about free ways of checking for plagiarism my answer is simple: Google.
When the quality of writing changes or when uncited information appears that could not have been known without using sources, I like to copy a string into Google between inverted commas. If there are too many hits, lengthen the string.
This simple use of Google sometimes out performs Turnitin in helping me find a source.
Hi nice to learn more from you and share our experiences, see you
Not sure, any website that checks for plagiarism for free if you manage to get it, pls share with us, coz at the moment I'm a PhD student in University technology Malaysia
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