Plagiarism Checker
Losing to keep track of references and credits in your thesis works affects your academic career. Plagiarism, in simple words, can be explained as copying someone else’s work and not giving them credit. It can be understood as when an individual submits a work under his or her name and the work submitted contains extracts from someone else’s work or research. This is known as plagiarism. Sometimes students simply forget to mention the references in their work and the readers take it as plagiarism. It is considered a big academic offence.
Even if a few sentences or phrases when cop[ied from someone else’s work are used without theur consent, it is considered plagiarism. In short, plagiarism need not always be the copying of an entire or a huge amount of work. In academia, plagiarism is considered as stealing or theft. Scholars see it as a theft of someone else’s hard work. A plagiarised work is frowned upon and the author or writer accused of plagiarised work is highly criticised. It is considered a disrespect to the original author or writer of the work.
How to identify plagiarism in work?
To identify plagiarism in work, one needs to first understand the various types of plagiarism commonly found in work:
Complete plagiarism : This kind of plagiarism occurs when a person submits or presents someone else’s work under their name. Sometimes students and aspiring researchers take somebody’s work or research which was done years ago and submit it under their name. It is considered as complete plagiarism.
Examples of complete plagiarism are hiring someone or paying someone to write your work or conduct research on your behalf.
When we ask our friends or siblings to write our projects and papers for us and then we submit them as our work. These are considered as complete plagiarism.
Direct plagiarism : This is similar to direct plagiarism. The only thing that differentiates the two is that in complete plagiarism entire work is copied or done by somebody else. Whereas, in direct plagiarism, the writer takes someone else’s quotes sentences or paragraphs and writes as it is in their work.
An example of direct plagiarism is writing someone else’s words and sentences without putting quotations, giving references or asking for permission.
Paraphrasing plagiarism : Often students do not realise that paraphrasing is also a type of plagiarism. It is when students change words and phrases of someone else’s work and use it for their own work. It is considered as stealing someone else’s work or idea and changing it to use according to their own needs and preferences.
An example of paraphrasing plagiarism is when a student copies their friend’s work and changes the sentences while writing their work.
Self-plagiarism : It is when a person re-used their past work for their current work. Self-plagiarism is a sensitive concept. Often people deny accepting it as plagiarism. It is the ideas that are reused and taken from the past work.
Example of self plagiarism: A student wrote an essay on the ‘importance of reusing plastic’. The same student wrote an essay on another topic, ‘the concept of sustainable living’ and uses the content from the previous essay, which was on the topic ‘importance of reusing plastic’. The ideas and words were his own but reusing it makes it plagiarised.
Patchwork plagiarism : It is also known as mosaic plagiarism. In this, the writer takes clauses from someone else’s work and fits them into his sentences.
Source-based plagiarism : In this type of plagiarism, the writer mentions the sources of data extracted but the sources cited are misleading.
Example of source-based plagiarism: When the writer cites fake or wrong sources for the extracted data.
Accidental Plagiarism : Accidental plagiarism occurs when the writer is unaware that they are using or writing somebody else’s work.
Examples of accidental plagiarism are forgetting to mention the sources of data or mentioning wrong references.
How plagiarism affects your work
A plagiarised and copied work brings many consequences for the thesis writer. These consequences are:
PhDFY, helping you in presenting an un-plagiarised work
PhDFY understands the importance of un-plagiarised, authentic work. We help students avoid plagiarism from their work in various ways:
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Manual checking : We manually check each research paper by reading and thorough analysis of the work. We have a team of plagiarism checkers who catch plagiarised texts and data effortlessly, without hassle. Our expert evaluators examine each sentence to identify the plagiarised data.
Text-matching software : There are various software which are used to compare texts to all the data available in the academic world. This helps in identifying plagiarism and similarities in data.
Citation analysis : We look and search for accurate citations and references to check the authenticity of the work.
Content analysis tools : We analyse linguistic and other features of the work to identify similarities or plagiarism, if any.
Manual comparison : We manually compare the texts with other works. This makes plagiarism checking easier and more effective.
Data mining algorithms : This is done to observe any similarities between the particular work and the large database already existing. This is very useful in detecting plagiarism in technical documents.
Cross-checking method : In this method, we compare the text with the academic database. Examples of cross-checking methods are Google Scholar and JSTOR.