Prevent Your Own Plagiarism

Many instructors use TurnItIn.com to gauge the authenticity of students' work. It is a valuable service, but it is difficult to use if you'd like to check your own work ahead of time. We've had several requests for a service that will help ensure that your papers are plagiarism-free and cited correctly. Well, you're in luck- here are some suggestions to use for pre-screening your work before submitting it:

*Paper Rater: This site will check your spelling, grammar, and originality, entirely for free! Just be sure to choose the "Include" option in the Originality Detection box. It will also analyze your word choice and style, and offer vocabulary options. Neat tool!



*PlagiarismChecker.com: Very basic in comparison, this site does allow you to enter shorter phrases that are then searched in Google to find instances of plagiarism in your work.

*WriteCheck: If you want to be really sure that your paper won't turn up any surprise plagiarism flags in TurnItIn, then you may be willing to spend the $5 that this site charges to check your paper. The advantage here is that the site is run by TurnItIn, and it checks your writing against the same papers and websites that your instructor is using to verify your original work.



Give some of these a try! They're valuable tools that may give you a quick lesson on plagiarism and the value of citation- or at least they might provide more confidence before you hit the submit button. And these three will not store and resell your papers, an accusation given to some of the free plagiarism checkers on the Internet.