Is my dissertation 100% original? Please advice

I got the literature review of my dissertation written by a company. I don't want to share the name of the company. I checked the 25 pages of the literature review at google.com . I had put each and every sentence of the literature review in google.com . There were no matches for the sentences. Not even one sentence matched with google search. I had put each and every sentence of the dissertation in google.com . There were absolutely no matches for not even one sentence. Does this mean that my dissertation is 100% original? Can I now submit my dissertation to my college? Please kindly advice. Thanks in advance.

Sounds like you have nothing to be afraid of, but if I were you I would just buy a few credits from writecheck.com and run the thing through it. Writecheck uses the turnitin database so you can be sure that there is no chance you are resubmitting another person's previous work.

You can try and use viper..It would get you a fair idea and it is free. ..but it is not 100% full proof..

Yes for a free scanner viper is good; dustball is also free. However, they're not as efficient as TurnItIn.

Trust me on this, the likes of dustball and Viper are useless and in that case I would say that the client is even much better off using Google, which although slow and irritating will give the right results. Dustball, Viper and Copyscape only work if the document is heavily plagiarized. I once compared them to writecheck and noted that while writecheck was giving a plagiarism rate of 30%, copyscape (which I had paid for because writecheck had just become expensive) was showing 0.

What if the work is done by your own supervisor? No one can eliminate this possibility, can you?

I couldn't agree more.


Can you elaborate a bit more on this statement?

What if he submits the work as his own when its actually done by his supervisor? Would he be in trouble?

No. But he pays extra for revision.

Plagiarism rate can never be measured by using tools like turnitin and others. They all show similarity index. There is a big difference between plagiarism and similarity in content. Even if a content is paraphrased, the work will be plagiarized if the source is wrongly cited. The best way to avoid plagiarism is to cite all the sources properly and take care of quotation marks when using some statements as they are. Sometimes, supervisors allow for even 20% similarity in content, but that does not mean it is okay to plagiarize 20% of the work. One has to identify what constitutes plagiarism and what not.

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Good, you got your full refund.

so if you got a full refund, why exactly are you complaining or calling it a scam???

A scam is someone who steals from you no??

I understand why you would be so overly cautious as to go through that kind of plagiarism checking. By the way, you chose the best method of plagiarism checking in my opinion as the search will not be stored in any database. Now, since the paper did not show up in Google, you can rest assured that the paper is 100% original. No worries there. If it doesn't show up in Google, then it is isn't stored in a database and the writer / company you hired made sure to take pains to actually write an original paper for you. That means, you can submit it for a grade, if you choose to do so, without any worries regarding possible plagiarism flagging.

The default resubmission count is infinite on TurnItIn. TurnItIn does specify on the assignment submission page if this has been changed by a tutor. Resubmitted work wipes the previous submission. You can use this to your advantage and check the originality percentage before the final submission.

Cite is wrong as usual. The TurnItIn archive is not aggregated by google. Only an originality report from TurnItIn will show this.

While Google is definitely one way to check for plagiarism in a free from fees form, it is not infallible. It will do no harm if the student opts to use a plagiarism checker that his teacher / professor has confidence in. If it comes out problem free, then the paper is safe to use. There are actually some teachers who now require their students to self-check for plagiarism using a program the professor suggests. He gets a copy of the plagiarism report even before the paper is submitted, the professor then asks the student to correct the problem points to avoid a failing paper and being reported for plagiarism. Students who hire writers often rely on those reports when requesting for revisions of their writer.