Please help with plagiarism checker

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Yes. This is part of what I teach for a living. Students need to recognize when patchwriting, copying structure, etc are happening. They need to understand how to paraphrase properly, how to cite sources for ideas and information and not just for exact words, how to have original syntax and not just replace words with synonyms.

Learning these things needs to be a conscious skill. Not crossing your fingers and “sort of” using sources in unethical ways.

That sort of learning comes partly from being ethical in general, partly from knowing the rules, partly in accurate note-taking to know what sources information came from, and partly from meticulous checking and rechecking one’s work.

A plagiarism checker will not pick up echoes of ideas, information, syntax, sentence structure, or overall form. It may or not pick up patchwriting. So there really is no substitution for care and attention to rules, details, and ethics.

So in answer to @coolweather, I don’t think it’s so much wrong as misleading. There really isn’t a shortcut here.