Good morning everyone, so I have a quick question. Has anybody had any good experience with any text editor/plagiarism checker. For those who are in university and or college we know we have to write term papers. The problem is coming down to check in grammar, and plagiarism. I’ve tried Grammarly, and it works kind of sort of. One of the biggest problems I had with Grammarly is the plagiarism checker. I ran some of my papers through there. It told me there was no plagiarism found, but yet when I uploaded it to my school, there was a 20% similarity score meeting it was 20% similar to somebody else’s work. What I’m asking the community is, is there any Apps or websites that are accessible that work well and reliable. Thank you in advance.
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Grammarly on Mac OS
I use Grammarly via Safari on Mac OS and have a paid subscription that lets me access the plagiarism checker.
Grammarly is accessible but cumbersome. The more you use it, the more your muscle memory will adapt to the workflow. (I've explored Pro Writing Aid enough to know that it is absolutely not accessible, and their customer support expressed no interest in addressing its many accessibility issues.)
Back to Grammarly. So far, I've only tinkered with its plagiarism checker, but I plan to use it a lot over the summer for my current project, an anthology of short fiction that I'm editing. I would expect some variation between plagiarism checkers. No two checkers will tell you the same thing. If one says not plagiarized, and another says 20%, then I would consider the work not plagiarized. It's the pieces that score over 80% that I'd look at with suspicion. Each plagiarism detector should include descriptions to help you interpret its output.
Flaws in checkers
I understand that there’s different outcomes in different checkers, I mean I’ve used Grammarly before and it’s told me that there was no plagiarism, but then when I posted it into my schools website for grading it said there was 10%. So I’m just trying to figure out what the disconnect is, or which is the better solution, because, like you said, I find Grammarly not to be that great as well.
Monitoring this thread
For my project, I'd like to run each submission through at least two plagiarism checkers, so I'm looking forward to feedback from others.
Do not use Grammarly
Grammarly seems to be very optimistic as far as plagiarism is concerned. The ebst solution is to use TurnItIn. Before I sarted using TurnItIn to check my students' work, I used
https://www.quetext.com/
It is very good and it brings you a report for the plagiarised content, and as far as my memory serves it is free.