Scan My Essay - Free Plagiarism Scanner, Checker and Detection Tool.

We'd love to hear your views about plagiarism scanners.

You can win one of three crates of Virgin Wine (or £60 cash if you don't like wine) and we'll give you a tenner if you help us on the phone!

Complete our online questionnaire (below) and we'll enter you in a draw to win one of three crates of excellent wine from Virgin Wines (12 bottles per crate). The closing date for this draw is 28th February 2009. If you win and you don't like wine, we'll send you £60 to your Paypal account instead.

At the same time, you can give us your phone number and a good time to call - this is totally optional, you don't have to. We'll select 50 random people from everyone who gives us a phone number, and if you're one of them, we'll give you a call (between 16th and 27th February) to ask a few more questions about plagiarism scanners, taking 10-20 minutes of your time. If it's not a good time when we call, you can ask us to call back. If you help us on the phone, we'll transfer £10 into your Paypal account (we'll use MassPay so you won't be charged any Paypal fees).

Thanks for helping us make great free software for you!

1. First, a little about you. We will keep this information confidential and we won't share it with third parties.

Your first name or a nickname:
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Your email address:
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What age are you?

Are you a...
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Where in the world are you?
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How do you connect to the internet to scan for plagiarism?
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Your phone number:

Give this if you don't mind answering some more questions to get £10 (Optional)

A good time to call is.... (GMT)

We won't use your number for anything else (Optional)

2. Now, tell us a little about your scanning 'habits'!

What sort of documents do you usually scan or might need to scan in future?
Tick all that apply (Required)

DOC (Microsoft Word document)	DOCX (Office Open XML Text document)	RTF (Rich Text Format)
HTML (Web Pages)	PDF (Portable Document Format)	PPT (Powerpoint Presentations)
TXT (Text Files)	WPS (Microsoft Works Documents);

Are there any other file types you need to scan, that we've not listed here? (Optional)

How many scans do you run at a time? (Required)
or, more than 100 at a time - please specify:

What sort of projects do you need to scan? (Required - tick all that apply)

Student Coursework (e.g. essays, dissertations, theses etc)	Code (e.g. code you've paid for to be written for you such as php)
Articles for the web (e.g. that you've paid for to be written)	Website content
...or, something else - please specify:

Are you usually the author of the content you're scanning? (Required)

How long are the typical documents that you scan? (Required)

Do you need to check documents in different languages? If so, which languages?(Optional)

When you use a plagiarism scanner, how quickly do you need the results? (Required)
...or, a different speed - please specify:

Why do you need the results this quickly? (Required)

3. Please tell us about your likes and dislikes.

Do you prefer: (Required)

What plagiarism scanning software have you used so far? (Required)

Of the scanners you've tried, which is your favourite and why? (Optional - please try to be specific)

Of the scanners you've tried, which is your least favourite and why? (Optional - please try to be specific)

Please rate these features in terms of importance to you, out of 10 (Required)

10 is the MOST important and 1 is the LEAST important	Score:
Trusted brand
Speed - the scans are fast
Accuracy - the scans accurately detect plagiarism
Checks internet - checks your documents against Google
Checks past submissions - checks against documents others have scanned
Allows multiple scans - handles more than one scan at a time
Interactive report - links to document containing plagiarism
Estimated overall score - indicates the likelihood that the document is plagiarised
Scans against books and journals
Reports can be stored - and retrieved later or emailed to someone else
Detects masked plagiarism - i.e. when someone has swapped the words round a bit
Scans document files - rather than having to paste the text into a box
Support available - e.g. live chat, telephone, email, forum
Checks grammar and spelling - at the same time as checking plagiarism
Checks references have been properly formatted
Makes suggestions (better words you could use, for example)
Provides advice in the report on how to correct any accidental plagiarism

Describe the problems and frustrations you've experienced when using plagiarism scanners.
What do you hate the most? (Optional)

If we could build a feature - or features - into the plagiarism scanner that you would find really useful, what would they be? (Optional)

And finally, is there any other academic-related software we could build that would make your life easier?

Thank you very much for helping us with these questions. We really appreciate your feedback.

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