Does plagiarism software save my text?

Dear all,

I just posted my research paper in a plagiarism checker. I did so just to check whether the software was any good. (It was. Only quoted words came up as "plagiarized.") I am worried that the website has now saved my essay, and that, when I turn my paper in, it will be registered as plagiarized. Does anyone KNOW whether I need to worry? Has my paper been stored and will it be detected by the university's software?

PS. I found the plagiarism checker/software on a site that offers custom-written texts. I want to disclose which site, but I won't in the first instance for fear of not being taken seriously. Thank you for your on-topic answers.

Once the text data is in, processed, it's stored. However, it depends on the sensitivity of the software application and its access to the archives.

In your case, I don't think your school's plagiarism checker will detect your paper as plagiarized; however, if it does, then it will match your paper with the same copy you submitted to the other scanner.

In this case, you can show the plagiarism report to your tutor with date, time, and summary. I hope it helps.

Thanks a lot for the reply. It was somewhat reassuring. However, I don't think I "can show the plagiarism report to [my] tutor with date, time, and summary" because I used the plagiarism checker as a visitor/guest, not a registered user, at <CustomWritings.com>. Or can I?

I hope I won't lose too much sleep over this tonight.

CustomWritings.com = PlagiarismDetect.com

I labored over my paper for a long time. I'm very anxious. This is where I uploaded my paper. <customwritings/check-paper-for-plagiarism.html>.

What do you think of this plagiarism checker? Do you think my paper has been stolen? :(

PS: I need a research paper in comparative politics and one in political theory, both 6 pages. So if anyone on here has a degree in Political Science, give me a shout.

Wake up and READ the contents of the link that I posted!

It pays to carryout out preliminary investigations before taking any "free" online services. A rule of thumb, do not take anything at its face value as there are many serial cheats out there masquerading as experts!

Most people use viper. I think it keeps your paper as does turnitin

WARNING: If you use Viper / Raptor Plagiarism Scanner or Grammarly, you waive copyright to your own property!

STUDENTS: You should never need to use a plagiarism checker if you didn't cheat. It's that simple. Plagiarism doesn't happen by accident, it happens when you take someone else's words and don't give them credit (technically, if you cite something incorrectly it will count as plagiarism, too, but plagiarism checkers won't help you with this issue).

There is no free plagiarism software/website that I am aware of that doesn't keep your essay to resell to later students.

Thanks, everyone, for the helpful replies.

I did read the whole thread, as well as several others. But, partly because you did not address that particular plagiarism checker, I'm just clinging on to a hope that it is not an absolute certainty that my essay will be detected by my university's plagiarism software -- an essay that I worked hard on and that I foolishly put through that ******* plagiarism checker.

So, WB, thanks a lot for the comments. Although their content is negative and deconstructive, they are actually very helpful as deterrents. But some positive and constructive content would also be helpful; ie. what to do, as opposed to what not to do.

What do you and the other writers on here suppose that I do with my paper now? Should I just throw it in the trash, delete it? Should I start all over again? Is it an absolute certainty that my essay will be detected as plagiarized (even though it is 100 % my own, of course)?

PS. My paper is due in a month. Should I go to my lecturer and tell him that I used a plagiarism checker on a site that sells essays?

Also, I will go to my lecturer and tell him that I used a plagiarism checker on a site that sells essays, which is the truth. It's a really, really important paper. Wow, I don't feel great about this. I hope he understands.

Btw, does anyone have alternatives? Going to my lecturer seems like the best option, however I am open to suggestions.

On a completely different note, ESL writing seems to be a huge issue in your business. There is some funny stuff on this forum about Kenyan and Pakistani writers. I can only imagine how much excruciatingly bad ESL writing there is. But, as you will know, there are always exceptions to the general rule. I am one such exception. English is my 3rd language. In spite of that fact I am completely fluent. Yes, I ****ed up and yes I'm on a tight schedule and need help, but I am an outstanding writer with lots of substance. My lecturer actually suggested that I revise my last paper and submit it to an international peer-reviewed academic journal. ESL writing is usually garbage, though. So many retards around.

If you didn't plagiarize and really only used the site to check your paper, there shouldn't be an issue. I'd go sooner rather than later, though--the longer you wait, the greater the possibility your instructor will think you actually purchased the paper form the site. You could sen an email with an attachment right now, and I'd do exactly that.


No one claims that only native English speakers are capable of fluency. The issue is that a lot of EFL speakers think they are fluent--or at least claim to be fluent--when they are far from it. Doing so is cheating their customers, because they receive obviously ESL papers instead of the academically appropriate papers for which they've paid.

MeoKhan is an example of an EFL writer that acknowledges his lack of native fluency, and he and others like him are more than welcome.

Those like the current trio of Kenyans on the board (heremout, munywab, and vuzi) not only misrepresent their skill levels, but they outright lie about where they are located, how they do business, etc. These ilk are not welcome, but they're not easily ejectable.

Ive used google in the past. I think it works just as well as some plagiarism scanners. Google of course does not keep your paper

Just because a paper has been harvested by an essay-writing company does not mean that it is sure to be detected/registered as plagiarized? The paper would have to have been turned in by a student ?

It's nice that you put question marks in front of these statements, because even though it seems as if you are making claims about how a paper would be detected the fact is your information is faulty. A paper that has been "harvested" by an essay reseller won't necessarily turn up as plagiarized, but it very well could, especially if excerpts of the essay are posted online as marketing tools.

Comments like that just make you look petty, infantile and quarrelsome. Do you really think that I don't know the difference between a statement and a question? (I've studied linguistics). This is an Internet forum, not a dissertation, (if you've ever composed one). Sometimes it is better to focus on substance, rather than form. I understand that a so-called "writer" that gets paid by the page for doing kids' homework and who is not acquainted with the subjects that he writes about would rather sit on forums picking fights over punctuation. How old are you, seriously?

Really? Telling you not to post information when you don't know what you're talking about and then continuing with more accurate information is petty and infantile? I'm sorry if you find it petty for me to point out your ignorance, but I find it annoying that you post misleading information.


You put questions marks after two statements, so I'm not sure. Simply adding a question mark doesn't make something a question, and both of the sentences you added question marks to are statements. Based on this evidence, it would appear that you don't know the difference.


This is an issue of basic grammar/punctuation. Regardless of whether or not/how extensively you've studied linguistics, you put question marks on statements.


I did. The substance of your statements was wrong, so I corrected it, and commended you for trying to communicate your uncertainty through the improper use of question marks.

You're bitter because I wouldn't work for the amount you offered. I get it. You're still a hypocrite for repeatedly asking me to do your work and then trying to mock me for the work I do.


Seriously, I'm old enough to know that's not a very polite question.

I dnt think so.we can easy find the plagiarism word or content even using simple google search.
just we have to do ..
searching the content in google search
here some more idea to know..techyv.com/questions/there-unlimited-online -plagiarism-document-scan-web-site

How can a word be plagiarized?

Anti-plagiarism software programs can make a successful effort on minimizing acts of plagiarism.Plagiarism has a lot of negative effect on college systems. It basically scans the World Wide Web for algorithms with any consistency of one phrase or sentence of one's paper to a source.

Try Dupli Checker, this is great and doesn't store your document. Be careful with Viper however, this does - essayscam.org/truth-plagiarism-detection-tools/

I don't understand why students have a fixation on plagiarism checkers these days. It appears that they would rather run the checker before submitting the essay, rather than leaving that job to the teacher or professor, whose job it is to make sure that the student doesn't cheat. If a student simply writes the paper, and tries to limit the use of in-text citations then he will all but have eliminated the possibility of plagiarism showing up. I say this because plagiarism checkers often flag quotes in the paper as plagiarism. Since there is a 30% threshold for citations in papers before the professor considers it plagiarized, simply not using quotes gets you around that rule already. The only reason a student should worry about plagiarism is if the paper was bought from an uncertain source. That is when the student should worry and not trust the plagiarism report that comes with the paper that you bought. Listen, if you wrote the paper, then you know that your paper is not plagiarized. Your professor will run it through a checking system and the result will be the same. However, if you jump the gun and submit the paper for plagiarism checking beforehand, than you personally assured yourself of a plagiarized paper once the academic check takes place.

Even some students who write their own essays might still be concerned because they genuinely don't yet know how to paraphrase properly and whether or not their genuine attempts to do so constitue plagiarism. However, if they're asking about it on this forum, the more likely explanation is simply that they purchased work from an essay company or a writer and they just want to make sure that what they received is actually the original work for which they paid and not something that has already been sold before or something that was plagiarized by the writer.

As far as I know, almost all of the online plagiarism checkers keep some sort of file, either complete or incomplete, of the work that has been uploaded to their server for "plagiarism checking". That is, unless it is otherwise specified. Remember that these companies need to set up an up to date database of student information / paper writing so that they can stay abreast of possible "plagiarism" among the students coming to use their free service. This is where the problem with these checkers lie. None of them every take note of the fact that the student was the original uploader in the first place so when the student comes back to do a plagiarism check a second time, his work will most likely get flagged.

If he did hire an essay writing company that offers plagiarism checking as part of their client freebie offerings, there is a great chance that the QA officer of the company will have submitted the paper to a plagiarism checking website that keeps a record of the work submitted. So, if the student happens to use the same site, the paper will definitely come up as plagiarized even though the student has never used the paper.

That is why it is better to hire an independent writer who can be trusted to write an original paper without the need to double check the work. The more a student checks the originality percentage of the paper he bought, the higher the chances that he will end up seeing his paid for paper as being plagiarized through no fault of the writer (from a legitimate non-ESL writing company) nor the company, or the student.

Sadly, more and more professors are relying on the WriteCheck and Turnitin reports versus actually taking the time to review papers from beginning to end, and we all know that even WriteCheck is not always accurate. Knowing that many professors do not take the time to see if flagged areas are legitimately flagged shows a decline in the education system. Instead of assigning papers to help students learn and grow, it appears they're being assigned for the sake of having assigned something. Then students become overwhelmed with multiple papers to be written in almost every class yet no time. No wonder students need help (poor writing as an issue aside).

I can understand that, as paying clients, students need to know the work they ordered is original. Given the high number of questionable companies/writers, they can't afford to simply take the company's/writer's word that the order is 100% original. However, that doesn't change the fact that all programs retain the data submitted. There is no single plagiarism checker that does not do this, so there is no comforting answer we can give students -- other than to stress the importance of working with a reputable company/writer.

This is precisely why there's a market for professional academic writers. The day that professors start assigning writing projects only to students who are likely to do much writing in their careers (beyond emails and other routine written communications) is the day that this entire industry collapses.

Programs that check written works for the presence of plagiarism do not have the function of preserving papers in the database, much less adding it to the site. And even if there is some strange plagiarism inspector which downloads students' work, loads them into the database and uploads it to the site, then it should take some time for the paper to be indexed. Until the paper is indexed it is not on the Internet. In order not to be afraid that such a thing can happen to your program, you need to use services that have a good reputation, such as service that you can find if you google "check my paper for plagiarism" and that is available by this link that helps students not only with checking papers for plagiarism, but also with writing whole papers without plagiarism. Use good services and everything will be fine.

I've just checked the Terms / Data Protection information of a popular random tool which clearly states: "Uploaded documents or text (data) are stored on our servers." Perhaps you should make it more clear to the TOS of your own "plagiarism" tool; just because you hide this information doesn't mean the content is not being transferred, hosted on web servers in countries without legitimate copyright laws, and eventually stolen from students.

Unlike essay service providers, scanning websites' reviews and "reputations" don't mean much, because users wouldn't necessarily have any way of knowing what the system actually does with those files after they're scanned. If the scanners are stealing the work and publishing it, they probably wait a few weeks (or months) and they don't publish them on websites that are easily identifiable as being connected to the scanning site.

If the plagiarism software is installed on your computer and does not ask the user to upload the file to an online website or server for comparison purposes then no, the software will not keep a copy of the essay in its database. If you are asked to upload the file online, or, if you use an online plagiarism detector, then you can bet your last dollar that the essay will be stored forever on an unknown server. In case you are wondering, yes, the paper might get flagged for plagiarism once you submit it and the professor double checks the content online. It will be hell to prove you did not plagiarize yourself. The best way around this situation is to simply not check for plagiarism. There is no sense in it. If you wrote the paper yourself, you know you did not plagiarize. So, no worries there. If you paid a writer to do it and you have a sinking feeling the paper was plagiarized, you are out of luck.