Free Scanner Software

You may have heard about free scanner software and be wondering whether or not it could be of help to you in the current drive against plagiarism. The answer to that, especially as the service is free, is YES!

So, what is free scanner software?

Our free scanner software, Viper, allows both teachers and students to scan academic work to search for both accidental and intentional instances of plagiarism.

It's 100% free to use, very easy to install and will provide an accurate report.

What is plagiarism?

Plagiarism in an academic context, whether intentional or accidental, is the use of a writer's work without properly referencing the source.

Schools, colleges and universities are concerned about increasing instances of plagiarism in academic work. This is because it is now very easy to cheat in this way due to the wealth of Internet sources offering the potential to cheat if you are so inclined.

Of course, cheating is never wise and is basically counter-productive: after all, what does it prove? Only that someone else can do your work better than you can and how satisfying is that? Cheating is always an admission of failure and what’s more, you will be caught!

Our free scanner software will help you to avoid accusations of plagiarism - it will show you where your work might be open to question from a lecturer or teacher.

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What does free scanner software provide?

Basically, free scanner software provides you with a free scan of your work and a report highlighting possible areas of concern. The best known of these and the most widely used is probably Viper.

Viper’s free scanner software gives you:

• colour coded and highlighted areas of the percentage of your work found in sources,
• colour coded and highlighted areas of the percentage of quotes found in your work,
• colour coded and highlighted areas of the percentage of quote matches in your work,
• colour coded and highlighted areas of the percentage of your work suspected of being plagiarised.

The colour coding in free scanner software is extremely useful because it enables you to see at a glance the incidence and frequency of possible areas of concern. This means that you will be able to correct any and all difficulties before they are recognised by the plagiarism scanners of your school, college or university.

In short, free scanner software will enable you to:

• recognise by the colour coding the percentage of work found in sources and if it is completely appropriate,
• recognise by the colour coding the percentage of quotes found in work and see if that is completely appropriate,
• recognise by the colour coding the matches in quotes and see if you have adhered precisely to the referencing style stipulated by your school, college or university,
• recognise by the colour coding the percentage of work that the free scanner software has identified as being open to accusations of plagiarism,
• recognise by the colour coding where you need to alter or delete areas of your work that might possibly be considered to be plagiarised.

Another huge advantage of free scanner software like Viper is that it highlights clearly in red the references used in your work.

This aspect of free scanner software offers you the double advantage of seeing that you have referenced correctly and checking on how appropriate that referencing is as evidence. When you use free scanner software in this way, you give yourself the advantage of taking another look at your referencing technique in all aspects.

Free scanner software helps you with referencing by:

• highlighting your references in red so that they stand out and you can see their placing and frequency,
• highlighting your references in red so that you can check that your referencing technique is accurate,
• highlighting your references in red so that you can ensure your referencing does not appear to be part of your text in the sense that it is your own idea but rather supplements points made correctly,
• highlighting your references in red so that you can check you have analysed your references correctly.

When should I use free scanner software?

You should use free scanner software after you have completed any piece of academic work before you submit it. In fact, using free scanner software should become second nature to you, just as using your spell-checker is.

The reason that you should use free scanner software so frequently is that it is very easy, especially when you are overburdened with work (as most students are), to slip unintentionally into plagiarism.

This is not to say that you would do this deliberately, even if you ignored the moral and legal issues, you would be bound to be caught because if you do not use free scanner software to detect any plagiarism in your work, you can be sure that your school, college or university will certainly use their expensive scanners to detect it!

Actually, most cases of possible plagiarism highlighted by free scanner software such as Viper provides are accidental.

In a typical scenario, you might, for example have taken notes from texts whilst researching your work. These notes would have been taken from a wide variety of texts and students often forget to make careful notes of the author, title, place of publication, publisher and page number when they are assembling evidence.

This might be because you are so interested in your work that you simply forget or that you are in a hurry. For whatever reason, this kind of careless note-taking often leads to plagiarism and by highlighting your referencing, the free scanner software shows you this and makes you look again at quotations you have used so that you can correct any errors.

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