I do not find any Plagiarism Search sites such as copyscape, article checker etc.. catch any sentence from my articles. When I write them on my own style, I feel it is only to satisfy the buyer I need to check with these tools, otherwise it is not required. Your valuable suggestions are welcome. Thanks in advance.
Its only to satisfy the buyer you are using plagiarism check sites. If you dont care about duplicate content, you can post the content as is written.
It is very important to tell your students that what is more important than having good grades is to acquire the skills to show those grades. It is very crucial for them to have researching and writing skills because these make them very visible to the one assessing their abilities. Students can be encouraged to improve their own capacities if you stress to them that improvement is an essential part of the grading. One of the reasons why students are inclined to plagiarize is because of the reason that others are doing the same thing. They think that it is a good excuse for plagiarizing just so they could keep up with their peers. They are confronted by the dilemma whether to spend a lot of time working hard, be faced with a possibility of having an average grade, and have lesser time for other subjects, or having high grades by just copying from some source, and being left with a lot of free time in their hands. The best way to handle the matter is to catch the students who plagiarize. By doing this, those who do not want to be behind their fellows and want to work fairly will have lesser weight of their shoulders. The thing is, students do not always have the idea of the amount of time that they should spend completing their assignments.
uh..yeah...important...you will get your client's site ripped down very fast if they are found to have copied material. and you can get them sued. they could, in turn, sue you. nothing to play around with.
Agreeing with Housing-Bubble here: Plagiarism is a dirty word in the writing industry, -- and it's also a crime. That said, yes, use Copyscape, for everything you write, and re-write. If you outsource, check their work before you hand it in.
Having a good plagiarism checker is key. If you don't than you will pay the price. that is very important to avoid.
There is some type of copyscape software I have seen in my travels , unfortunatly I cannot remember where....
This whole issue really boils down to honesty, integrity and trust. From what I can see, it comes into play much more often with article writing than it does with SEO copywriting but "writers" have been known to plagiarize both. For buyers, tools like Copyscape and simple Google searches should be employed whenever there is doubt about the integrity of the writer. However, those tools only catch the thieves who steal online works verbatim. Borrow/copy from offline sources or massage the words around enough and even the best plagiarism tool will fail to find the real source of the content. As a writer, I strive to establish my credibility as an honest businessperson. I have built my business around being trustworthy. I have NEVER had a client insist that my work pass Copyscape - they knew that when I said it would be "original and unique" that it would be exactly that. At the end of the day, if you are selling articles to customers who falsely equate "passing Copyscape" with "original and unique" then you will have to continue to prove your work passes. Build a reputation for providing quality work and you should find the "passing Copyscape" requirement decreasing and the ability to raise your rates increasing.
I would suggest using plaigairism detect, as it often catches phrases that copyscape will not; just like on Ezine articles, how they have an interface that checks for plaigerized content on their site, as well as off of their site. I think you should still check, because if the people you are providing your services to, were ever to find plaigerised lines (even though you have written it, there are times when you can write the same thing as other people have, although not intentionally), and of course you don't want to compromise anything just because of that.
If you're writing an article off the "top of your head" or from your own knowledge, there is no reason to check it for plagiarism. You wrote it, you own the copyright. If, on the other hand, you are researching an article and writing based on ANY other content - online article, web page, book, etc. - then, yes, definitely check it. I'm a professional freelance writer and have been for many years and I never check for plagiarism, because I know I don't copy anyone else's work, UNLESS I research an article online. Then I do.
Tell me something – if you know you did not plagiarize, why do you have to check if it matches something else that already exists? The chances of your sentences matching others on the internet are quite low, let alone a majority of your sentences matching existing content. For a 500 word article to match something that already exists, most of the sentences would have to be cliches. But even then, so many cliche sentences coexisting in the order and structure that you have chosen on your own are not likely to be matched that easily. Besides, these plagiarism detectors are faulty anyway. They use statistical and pattern identifying functions to calculate the percentage of match between your article and everything indexed by them and/or Google. So in conclusion, if you have used your research material only for research and have put in your own thoughts and insights into the article, there should not be any need for a stupid plagiarism checker. Yes, they are stupid and it is hilariously easy to fool them. However, it is not that easy to fool Google. Why? Because if those plagiarism detectors are nuts and bolts, Google is the entire machine.
Absolute must...you must always check your content for plagiarism... Though the chances are rare, it's possible that a sentence or two that you write are exactly identical to something that is already found on the internet. This is especially true if you're writing on health topics...The conditions are similar, the symptoms are identical, and the treatment methods don't vary a lot...As such, you must always check for duplicate content...
Yes always check your content on Copyscape, as with the help of this, you can be on the safer side...
This is an interesting issue. I've started checking articles too. How many different ways can you write abouut the same thing without starting to repeat yourself -- or discovering that others have put it that way before you even IF you wrote it off the top of your head? Worthy investment, and since it's quite inexpensive... And yes, if you're writing for clients, it's a really good idea for the reasons mentioned above.