Relying on plagiarism software like "Turnitin" is not worth it

Dear Friends (Students and Writers),

Its my sincere advice to you all that don't rely to any plagiarism software like "Turnitin" or "Grammarly." The reason is that when you put your report on the software 1st time it detect the plagiarism (if it) and store it in its database and when you try next time after paraphrasing it definitely shows the 100% plagiarism or the same percentage which it shows 1st time.so please don't rely on it otherwise you will get bigger suffer.

The process for checking against plagiarism in academic papers is lengthy but you have to attempt it .

1. Analyse your report on "articlechecker" (its free but authentic)
2. Analyse your research report on "plagiarismdetect" (its free but authentic)
3. Now highlight those portion with "bold" and underline"
4. Check the remaining portion manually at "Google".
5. You have complete "plagiarised data" of your report.
6. Then Re-Write or paraphrase it and then again use the same process.

this is the only process in which you away from the plagiarism report and submit unplagiarised report.

If you are not able to go for this process,kindly contact me and avail my sincere service at very competitive rates with high quality work.

I'd also like to recommend a useful website: TranslateMyPigeonEnglishIntoTheEnglishLanguage dot com

Dear Frnd,
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FW, this is CLASSIC!

(my very sincere apologies to both FW and WB for what I'm about to do. This is funny as, but might as well explain)

Saloo81: that was not a real website. FreelanceWriter was trying to tell you that your English is... erm, Pidgin English. That means it's broken and no matter how many big words you use (or because of that), your sentences don't sound natural in the least. You may be a highly educated non-native speaker, but what you write will sound terribly odd to people from the US, UK, Canada, NZ, Oz and so on.

(No offence meant, I'm not a native speaker of English either ^^)

I think copyscape & mydropbox is good for detection and as far as I know they don't store any data

Oh this thread reminds me something. DO NOT trust any Plagiarism Detection without investigation. As far as my experience with turnitin is concerned it stores the essay with the name of the person who scanned it. And it allows making changes and does not show it as plagiarized if it is scanned by the same person.

Just do original work (there is no alternate to that) these tools are for cheaters.

And there is a great risk in using these unknown tools. I suspect that these tools could be used by fraudulent companies for collecting (stealing) papers.

and if there is a dire need to check plagiarism, use Google.

Checking essays for plagiarism - is it advisable?

Hi, is it advisable that once your have your essay written that you have it checked for plagiarism, even though the company has said this is something that they do.

Is it worth me buying the turnitin program to ensure that work is not plagiarist.

pigeon, lol. it's "pidgin..." and how's your English?

Turnitin stores your paper in its database so that if your professor tries to check it for plagiarism it will turnout 100% plagiarized. You could try other programs such as dustball or copyscape although they may not be as thorough as turnitin. But ensure you always check essays you receive for plagiarism.

I've never seen any anti-plagiarism program in action, but I'd imagine that you could just print or store the initial dated report from the first submission by the student in case you ever need to prove it to anybody later.


Unlike some people here, I can admit to an occasional mistake: I've never seen the word in print and never thought about it. As far as our respective English writing skills go, we both work for one of the same essay companies on whose board multiple specific requests for Pheelyks and me appear almost daily. Meanwhile, I've never seen even a single request for you on the board, ever. The company also sends me internal requests to handle papers for employees' friends and families as well as for particularly difficult papers that they don't trust to many other writers. They've told me, very explicitly, that I'm one of their top 4 writers out of more than 100, the other 3 being Pheelyks, InfoCEO, and ResearchPro.

You should probably spend a little more time practicing you own writing so that you can actually make a living doing this and a little less time desperately contacting total stranger via this forum's message system to find out if they know who WB is and reviving ancient threads to gloat that you managed to find a mistake in one of my old posts. I'm not spellchecking this post either, so have at it if that makes you feel a little better about our respective value to the same company.

Have you ever seen any other action? Doubful. Doesn't ****** check papers for plagiarism?

Yes, but we writers have nothing to do with that; it's not like we get a report on every paper we write confirming that it's 100% original. I'd imagine that writers would only receive a report if a paper got flagged. Thanks for asking.

Hi,
I'm using Turnitin.... but it's probably bad idea. In general I prefer not to use such plagiarism finding tools because they may store the checked writing on their servers. You lose the ability to own your content and resell it if needed.

can you teach me how to write run-on sentences like a pro?


glad to know you're thinking about me. as I explained before, I don't do custom orders for AD.

you spelled pigeon right-- it's just that you're dumb. no spellchecker in the world is going to overcome that for you.

No, because anybody who thinks that's a run-on sentence is clearly an amateur.

As I said, I'm not the one emailing total strangers around here desperately seeking information on the identity of other forum members who insulted me; you are.

I already admitted to that mistake immediately. The point was simply that I don't bother spell-checking or proofreading these posts in general, not that SpellCheck flags homonyms or homophones.

Yeah, some college instructors are using turnitin.com which offers writecheck.com/static/home.html - a similar tool for students. I believe it uses the same database to check the papers.

turnitin is the enemy. would someone who can hack please do us all a favor?

WB-- did you do your homework?

Why do you say that Rustyboy. I don't see a problem with a site that encourages creativity. If all papers could be submitted through turnitin, companies would be unable to resell papers, timescales notwithstanding.

Here are 5 reasons why students should never (willfully) use Turnitin, Grammarly, or related plagiarism / text checking tools:

1. You give away (for free) your exclusive rights to use the content. In many cases (doesn't apply to Turnitin but to commercial plagiarism or grammar checking tools), by using their software, you agree that the checked content can be used either in public or private. For example, they can use your content to create or test AI tools (normally, they would have to pay a writer or a person to fill out surveys to provide free content).

2. Your content is indefinitely stored on their servers and the right to use your work can be transferred to 3rd parties without your explicit consent.

3. It some cases, you may have included your personal information in the content and then you would not be able to remove it (either because you cannot prove you were the author or you have revoked your rights to your exclusive ownership).

4. All plagiarism testing tools are unreliable. For example, they cannot distinguish between quoted text / references (you may include some quotes in your paper, which will be classified as plagiarism because the software doesn't know the difference between a quote and non-quote).

5. If you are a student and submit your papers to Turnitin or other databases, you will not be able to use, either in full or in part, YOUR own papers for other projects or classes because they will be marked as "plagiarized."

If a student wrote the paper himself, then there is no need for him to submit the paper to a plagiarism checker. That would be really stupid since he would be accusing himself for plagiarism and bother himself with needless revisions based on the inaccurate reading of the plagiarism checker. The best way to avoid plagiarism when you wrote the paper yourself? Do not check it at all. What if you hired a writer? Ask if the company has an in-house plagiarism tool. Some of the companies have this and these do not store you essay on their server. It is pretty much reliable in terms of checking for plagiarism. Submit the essay to the software checkers only if your professor recommends it. Otherwise, save yourself the trouble.

You two geniuses evidently don't know that students don't submit to turnitin.com; neither do essay purveyors. Professors do, through their schools. That's the only way to get a "run-through."

If you're going to post in 6 threads a day here, like you're spinning a web for flies, you could at least try to "write what you know." You're going to give yourself away (not to mention alienating potential female customers). Don't get careless!

Some students use plagiarism detectors when they buy essays from academic writing companies. They do not trust the plagiarism report that the companies provide. So they run the risk of submitting their essay to a system that their professor might submit their essay for checking to. So they end up self plagiarizing in the process. The simplest thing to do is not check the paper for plagiarism. Trust the provided report and trust your writer to have written you an original essay. This is specially true when you hire an independent writer to complete your work.

DisgruntledStudent's first two points are valid, because commercial anti-plagiarism scanners typically do retain anything scanned, and the fine print of their TOS often even includes clauses that actually transfer copyright ownership (or an unlimited-use license) to your work. However, the following three points are absolutely ridiculous:

Obviously, this is completely under the control of users, and any student trying to maintain anonymity would have to be an idiot to include personally-identifying info in anything scanned.

They're not perfect, but they're pretty good at finding overt plagiarism. Professors couldn't care less about properly referenced quotes that get flagged, incorrectly; but this is also completely under the control of users: smart users know to delete all quotes and the entire reference page before scanning, to get a more accurate result. Reference pages should be scanned separately, just to make sure the writer didn't reuse an entire list of sources from a previous project. Almost all sources will get flagged, simply because they've all been cited hundreds or thousands of times before; so, what you want to check is that your project doesn't contain a suspicious number of sources that appear together in some other essay or other work. Scanners also sometimes flag common word combinations, but anything flagged can be checked by the professor, because scanners also indicate where else the flagged content was found. No history or economics professor cares about any coincidental string of four or five words that also happened to appear in a completely different context in some Biology or Engineering essay that's totally unrelated to the topic of the history or economics essay. As I've explained previously, even within a history essay, there's probably no possible way to write that WWII began on September 1, 1939, when the Nazis invaded Poland in any combination of words that hasn't already been written countless times. Professors understand that, as well, and aren't concerned with those types of "matches" in any plagiarism scan.

This is even more ridiculous. Those scanners also record and display the original source of the flagged content, as well as the date and time that your essay was submitted for scanning. If your flagged content matches something published (or previously scanned into the system by another student at a different college) years ago, that's obviously a problem, provided the match itself is relevant and not just an unrelated coincidental string of words. However, if the only match of the content flagged is an entire essay first uploaded by someone at your college a few days before your deadline, it's obvious to your professor that it's only your own work that you scanned, yourself, in preparation for submission. That's particularly true nowadays, when many professors actually require students to submit their work to the student version of Turnitin or some other plagiarism scanner before submission.