Plagiarism Checker?

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<p>Hi, my colleage has a paper due soon and he have to submit it online via turnitin. Turnitin isn't free to use so he is desperately searching for a free one. </p>

<p>He found one and the plagiarism checker he used was smallseotools plagiarism checker and he told me his paper came out to be 92% "unique", obviously since it counted for all the cited sentences as cheating too. </p>

<p>My question is does smallseotools store your essay in some way so that when he turns it in to Turnitin it'll say that his essay was 100% copied? I have been thinking about using the same tool for my future papers as well but I'm a little skeptical. (Can never be too careful right?) </p>

<p>Has anyone used seotools and had no problems? Thanks!</p>

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<p>We just used turnitin, but I don’t remember a fee, it seems like that may be something the PTA could assist with?
He could also try a different checker.
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<p>I believe the schools have a contract with turnitin. We never paid during high school.</p>

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<p>Was your colleague just checking for plagiarism before using Turnitin to make sure? I can’t imagine doing that.</p>

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<p>No, smallseotools does not in any way, shape, or form store any essays you submit to it. It is used primarily by internet marketers (seo = search engine optimization) to tell if content is unique, as duplicate content incurs a google ranking penalty.</p>

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<p>Am I missing something? Why use a plagiarism checker before submission if your paper isn’t plagiarized? Citations aren’t plagiarism.</p>

<p>Many faculty use Turnitin at my school, and the university pays for it.</p>

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<p>I’m surprised it costs anything. My 9th grader has to use it every time he turns in an English paper. I would think that if our high school pays anything the university that your colleague is turning something in would pay for it too.</p>

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<p>“I don’t see the point of this either.”</p>

<p>To see if he’s changed it enough so the plagiarism checker doesn’t catch him?</p>

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<p>Could someone explain how turnitin works?</p>

<p>How does it catch ideas that are not written and recorded anywhere? How does it detect someone plagiarizing essays written by other students, lectures from professors, speeches, discussions, video recordings,… or borrowing ideas from foreign books?</p>

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If an idea is not written or recorded then it can’t be plagiarized because it doesn’t exist in print. Whoever puts it down first has claim to it.</p>

<p>Turnitin works by comparing a students product to a huge database of previously published works (which would include other students’ work in the turnitin DB).</p>

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<p>Erin: So if I write down my group discussion ideas and publish first then I can claim they are my own ideas?</p>

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<p>turnitin makes money off of students that have no choice.</p>

<p>exploitation at its worst.</p>

<p>schools PAY turnitin to help turnitin build its database and therefore offer a better product… genius business model, really. Neither the schools or the website offer compensation to the people that are populating its databases.</p>

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<p>Turnitin and similar databases cannot catch all plagiarism, but they can identify the more obvious and stupid examples of cut-and-paste, use of fraternity/sorority paper archives, etc. The existence of Turnitin is just a response to the fact that online access to documents has made casual plagiarism easier than ever before. </p>

<p>If Turnitin identifies a match in a text block, I can only get a link to the source if it is in the public domain or if the paper was submitted to my university. If it’s from another university, I would have to file a request to get access to the paper. </p>

<p>Elaborate plagiarism now takes some effort, almost as much as just doing the assignment yourself, the way you’re supposed to.</p>

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<p>Depends on the context of your claim and the assignment you are doing. Students should know when to paraphrase, summarize, or quote. They are taught how to cite in a variety of formats (MLA, APA, Chicago etc.). Most plagiarism occurs not because a writer uses another’s ideas, but because the writer did not cite appropriately.</p>

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<p>Our school pays for TurnItIn as well but only teacher and faculty have access to it, not students. Me and my colleague want to use a checker in order to see if we forgot to cite a sentence or so, which we tend to forget.</p>

<p>Anyway, it seems like smallseotools is safe from what I read from previous posts?</p>