Someone gave me a job to rewrite a content. Now he wants the article be copyscaped. I only know the copyscape which checks the url. I have to copyscape my .doc file. Or the not uploaded content. How can I do that?
Why not just temporarily upload it? Frankly, I'd tell the client to copyscape it on their own. It's beyond pointless to tell the writer to do it for them.... if the writer's dishonest enough to plagiarize content, why would they be honest about running it through copyscape? Then again, the second a client starts a relationship by saying they'll check work against Copyscape, I tell them to stop wasting their time with a professional if they're going to disrespect me from the beginning, and to find someone else to do the work....
You can only copyspace URLs, so you must upload it to a website first. I agree with Jenn except I'd be inclined to ask for more money if a client asked me to copyscape my work before sending it in. In fact, I might start offering a service to copyspace articles for $1.00 each. Then of course, someone else will offer to do the same thing for only $.10 each.
I like that idea! In fact, doesn't the full version of Copyscape cost a nominal fee around there? Exactly! This makes no sense at all to ask the trusted to prove why they are trustworthy. It's like you write an essay for school and they tell you to attach a copy of the top ten google results for the first five sentences of your essay. If I stole it, I know I would certainly be looking for a workaround.
I always look at it this way... you wouldn't tell a professional accountant "you better make sure you do the math right, because I'm going to check your work against my cheap tax software before I pay you," so you better not tell a professional writer anything along those lines either. The people who do that generally hire amateurs or hobby writers, or they've simply been burned in the past. Frankly though, I don't care what other providers have done to them. You never, I repeat never, should enter into a professional relationship by making even the slightest implication up front that the professional doing the work might be dishonest. You should know the quality of their work from their portfolio or at least know their credentials, and you either trust them based on that or you don't. If you don't, then you simply shouldn't be hiring them.
I believe an employer asking for copyscaping content to the author is just a person who doesn't know what he/she wants and is just making you waste your time, unles he or she is paying for the extra job.
Thank you guys. I'd did same. I uploaded the content to a temporary blog and checked that. Thank you very much.
Cocaine, hi, You've already found your solution in this particular situation. However, I am very from believing (just as jhmattern and others mentioned) that such an employer (who would copyscape a writer's content) might be taken seriously. Sounds ridicululous and even offensive to me. Anyway, all the best to you
I was writing content since 1 year. and this is the first time I did did this job I mean rewriting. I never knew before about the copyscape. Btw I dont actually belive in copyscape. Here is why. If you are writing about voip services then you need to mention the features of voip which you generally write separated by comma. Since there are thousand of people writing on same topic the features obviously can be repeated. There are not so many ways to write those things. What do you think?
True. Not so many ways to write certain things. In the case you mention, the features will be considered as plagiarized content. But it cannot be helped.
Anyone who buys content would be braindead not to copyscape the work, it's very little work compared to the hassles of being liable for copyrighted items on your site. With that said, asking the writer to do it is just dumb.
Also, remember to take down the blogger post since leaving it online would result in duplicate content penalties.
If you use the pro service they have just started allowing this... you can copy and paste the article. See the Premium Search... This is one of the ways we check our articles for plagiarism and originality.
Here's kind of the way I see it... if you want to copyscape something when you buy it, no harm in that. But don't enter into a relationship throwing that out there immediately, because it's flat out insulting. If plagiarism is such a huge concern, what that really says is that you're not hiring the right writers to begin with.
Depends... what if you're buying in bulk and working with hundreds of writers? Its hard to keep them all straight. Many of our clients use us for this reason.... They will work with 20 different writers and count on our editors to make sure we only allow quality/unique writing. I can't think of at least 5 customers of ours like this, so i'm sure there are tons more out there doing the same thing.
Perhaps, but in that case it's still the same thing... just related to trust in the company and not the writers. If they trust you to ensure quality from your writers, then you're good. If they can't trust your company, it's the same as if they were working with individuals... they need to find someone more professional to work with (not saying your company isn't professional... just speaking in a general sense about the similarity).
We are a bad example because not many companies offer this type of service... My point was many people looking for writers deal with more then one and sometimes 10+. In these cases checking for quality and plagiarism is just part of the process. As a person who used to do this, its a common thing when you have a large numbers of writers working for you... Sure over the months/years you don’t have to check anymore with certain writers, but writers come and go online. Writers get busy, find full time jobs, get board of writing about cats, etc.