How best to scan my essay?

Please can someone tell me the best way to scan my essay or related college papers? Mixed messages about viper and grammarly-like tools!!! When I submit it, it goes through turnitin, but is it safe for me? Do they steal my work this way?

Many thanks.

Goode - NEVER EVER use Viper, for 2 reasons:

1) it is a crap plagiarism scan and will not identify plagiarism (it shows 15% plagiarism for an essay copied word for word off the internet!);

but more importantly,

2) if you scan with Viper than you give AA, Viper's owners, the right to use your essay in future - so your essay may well appear for sale now or in the future from Academic Answers (who are this week offering free access to 3000 essay they got in just this way!). This company owns UKEssays and many other sites.

NEVER USE VIPER!

Best to use WriteCheck which is the same as Turnitin and costs very little - you just buy some credits. Google it.

Thank you for your reply. I apprecaite your advise.

WritersBeware do you have an opinion on this?

Goode - WritersBeware has an opinion on everything - usually a wrong one that farts out of that psychotic witch's arr%se like putrid diarrhoea! But the monkey can spot a TYPO! Than instead of then!

Well done MONKEY! Have a banana... Next, we'll see if you can put coloured shapes in holes - we'll start with a lie spouting from your mouth and we'll shove it in your lie-shaped hole, eh? LMAO!

LMAO!

And WB thinks an adjective and an adverb are the same thing!!! LMAO! And that there exact rules for when to use punctuation!!! LMAO! And the 'beware' needs an 'of'. LMAO! And that a sentence cannot end with a preposition! LMAO!

RETARD ALERT!

WB - typical IGNORANT retarded product of American school system... Never trust a word the spamming psycho says. If you do, students, you deserve to fail.

AND NEVER EVER USE VIPER or Grammarly!

Free plagiarism scanners.

Are any of the free online plagiarism scanners as good as writecheck by turnitin?

UseTurnitin, and make sure to change the settings so it wont save your essay. Plagscan is also thorough and the second best option according to my opinion (if you don't care about your content being used by them as their own writing).

There are a lot of professional ways on how to scan your essay through any plagiarism detectors online. However, make your essay unique and special by following easy steps - check out big essay writer -most-effective-essay-writing-techniques for details! Happy scanning!

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I recently learned that one way of checking for the plagiarism in model papers is something that not everyone (or maybe it's just me) has thought of doing. That is, taking a specific section of the paper you were given, enclosing it in quotes, then posting it directly into the Google search box. This normally returns any portions or a full essay from a different source if it was only copy pasted. It is accurate as Google scans all of the websites in its directory for similar words, phrases, or sentences and returns all similar results. The reason why I recommend this method these days to students is because the file is not stored on any server as the online plagiarism checkers tend to do and the search is highly accurate since Google is the biggest and most up to date search engine (as far as I know) so plagiarism checking becomes less bloody and ideally, less of a pain in the behind for the students. I've tried it a number of times with the students who consult with me and the results have been highly acceptable in terms of returning plagiarized content.

The best way to scan your essay is to not scan it at all. Leave the scanning to your professor or teacher in order to avoid accidentally loading your paper into an online plagiarism checker that stores your paper for future reference. If the professor accidentally uses the same system, you are sunk. Don't focus so much on scanning your paper. That is, provided you actually did the writing yourself. If you paid a writer to help you out, then you should request the writer to provide you with a plagiarism report using an offline scanning tool instead. Don't trust these scanning services to not store your data because you can be sure that they do that. It is always best to just leave the scanning to the professor. A professor will know best how to judge whether or not a paper is actually plagiarized or simply using too many quotes in the presentation.

Exactly. Despite what some programs claim, ALL retain some if not all of the submitted document in their database. It's just too risky. The best course of ensuring your work is not plagiarized is to carefully cite everything that comes from a source and try to use your own words (avoid direct quotes when at all possible). Then, go back and check everything again to be sure you cited everything AND put the source in the reference list.

I've had clients ask me to rewrite papers that failed because of a high similarity percentage when a few simple checks and rechecks would have made all the difference. I know some writers who add sources last. I don't. I add as I use them so that I am less likely to forget anything. If I cite it, I add it to the reference list right then. I also make sure that when I cite, I do the full correct citation then. I don't add a placeholder citation and go back to add the year, page number, or whatever. Of course, that's my personal system, but it works for me!

Do not trust any plagiarism checkers, do not ask companies to provide a plagiarism report, do not do anything that may result in your essay being pre-submitted to any service that your professor may or may not be using. Remember, the existence of your paper online, before you submit it, will be a red flag regarding not only the originality of the paper, but will plant the seed of suspicion in your professor's head. Did you hire someone to write your paper? Did you buy a model paper? Did you steal someone else's work? The questions would have been endless. It is better to never seek clarity on the originality of your paper and leave that checking task to the professionals. Do not do anything that would make the professor suspicious regarding the source of your paper. Do not scan the paper, it just isn't worth it.

Scanning your essay prior to submission is not the best interest of the student. Due to the advent of AI, Google has been storing your papers in its system to help teach its AI about student papers, the information contained, and how it is used. This is then used by Gemini / Chat GPT to generate other essay models on the same topic. It may or may not be credited by the AI should it use the information you provided. Either way, it will appear that you plagiarized your paper. So it is best to let the humans do the plagiarism scanning and detection, after you have submitted your paper to your professor.

I've always disagreed with the suggestion that scanning your own essay prior to submission exposes you to any kind of plagiarism accusations. Nothing about that has changed now that scanning can be done through AI instead of through traditional scanners. First, traditional scanners have always stored anything scanned for various future uses; so the fact that scanning can now be done with AI programs is a total non-issue, IMO. Second, unless you're talking about PhD dissertations (which can sometimes be developed into professional journal articles or books), almost no academic projects have any value (to their original creators) once submitted for credit and graded. Third, and most importantly, who cares that other students might submit the same project sometime after you've already submitted your own work for credit? They're the only ones at risk of plagiarism accusations, not the legitimate original author.

Professors aren't rechecking your work again weeks, months, or years after you complete their courses. Plagiarism scanners don't just flag plagiarism without any other information; typically, they indicate exactly where and when the work was first scanned (and/or submitted), and in many cases, that also includes the academic institution where it was originally scanned (and/or submitted). Even if the scanner you used doesn't provide an automatic record, you can simply preserve your own record of the date that you scanned your work, whether through the dated email report they generated or by capturing the relevant dated screen shots, manually. The upshot is that plagiarism scanning only presents a risk of plagiarism accusations to whomever tries to use the work subsequent to the scans done by the original creator at the time of its first submission, regardless of whether the scanner is a traditional system or an AI program. IMO, this presents zero risk to the original creator of the work.