Free Plagiarism Detection

Plagiarism is something that you are bound to come across during your academic career. That doesn’t mean of course, that you will actually be guilty of plagiarism yourself, but you will certainly be warned about the serious consequences of it and the best ways to avoid it.

Ironically, although schools, colleges and universities are keen to warn students against the dangers of plagiarism, they are not so forthcoming about ways that students can protect themselves against charges of plagiarism by using free plagiarism detection (such as Viper), despite the fact that they use sophisticated and expensive plagiarism detection themselves!

You need to learn about free plagiarism detection so that you can use it regularly to prevent yourself from being accused of plagiarism whether accidental or deliberate.

What is meant by ‘free plagiarism detection’?

Free plagiarism detection means using an online scanner in order to ensure that your work has not plagiarised the work or ideas of another in any way.

This means highlighting areas of your work where you might possibly be accused of copying out some else’s work and pretending that it is your own.

Free plagiarism detection devices such as Viper root out any areas of your work that might lay you open to such a charge and show you where and how frequently your work has come close to plagiarism in one form or another.

How can free plagiarism detection like Viper help me?

Free plagiarism detection like Viper can help you by scanning your work and providing you with a detailed report on areas that are potentially sensitive. This enables you to see where you are going wrong and correct or erase any danger areas before submitting your work.

The complete free plagiarism detection offered by Viper provides both students and teachers alike with all of the following in its easy to read colour coded report:

• free plagiarism detection showing the percentage of work found in sources,
• free plagiarism detection showing the percentage of work made of quotes,
• free plagiarism detection showing the percentage of matches in quotes,
• free plagiarism detection showing the percentage of work suspected of being plagiarised.

In this way, the free plagiarism detection such as Viper offers assists you to:

• Consider if the percentage of work found in sources is correct
• Consider if the percentage of work found in quotes is appropriate
• Consider if the matches in quotes matches your citation
• Consider if the percentage of work suspected of being plagiarised is correct and if so what you need to do to change and/or remove it.

All of these will be highlighted in different colours by the free plagiarism detection so that you can readily access all the different areas and see the connections between them and correct the errors that the free plagiarism detection has shown you thus facilitating the quick and easy elimination of these problems.

In addition to this, the free plagiarism detection highlights in red any references that you have used. This can be very useful indeed because careful referencing is essential if you are to ensure that you do not lose any marks through careless referencing errors. You will be aware, of course, of the referencing style that your school, college or university requires you to use. This referencing style must be adhered to in all your academic work, if not your grade will suffer.

By highlighting all your referencing in red, the free plagiarism detection gives you an additional opportunity to check your referencing and therefore to eradicate any errors. The free plagiarism detection also enables you to ensure that you have not accidentally forgotten to cite any references in your work and check that the evidence is functioning efficiently in your work.

I never plagiarise – should I still use free plagiarism detection?

Yes, you should always use free plagiarism detection because you can never be sure that you have not accidentally plagiarised.

Think of free plagiarism detection as you would your computer’s spell-check: you use that to make sure you have not made careless errors and you should use free plagiarism detection for exactly the same reason.

After all, you could not possibly say that you never make spelling mistakes no matter how good a speller you are. All of us make careless errors or ‘typos’ occasionally and the spell checker shows us these.

The free plagiarism detection device does exactly the same thing and by showing you where you are going wrong, the free plagiarism detection report helps you to correct your problem areas.

For this reason alone you should use free plagiarism detection regularly.

Remember, that it is all too easy to plagiarise by mistake and this is another good reason for using free plagiarism detection software like Viper. You can very easily be careless in your note-taking for instance, especially if you are using a lot of texts or undertaking lengthy research over a long period of time. In cases like this, free plagiarism detection software like Viper can be invaluable, because it will pick up on possible references, which you have failed to cite correctly.

You should also be aware that if you do not use a free plagiarism detection device for your work, your academic institution certainly will and it is preferable by far that you should find and alter or erase any possible areas of potential plagiarism, before you submit your work to be marked by your school, college or university.

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