Plagiarism Checkers
Plagiarism checkers are software that can be used to cross-check text for duplicated content (this may include quoted material, paraphrased material, similarities in wording, etc.). These tools help to ensure that writing is original and correctly cited.
Plagiarism is often unintentional--you may not realize that you have accidentally plagiarized so using a plagiarism checker can help determine if and where plagiarism may have occurred so it can be corrected.
The following are some examples of plagiarism checkers:
- Turnitin: TurnItIn is a plagiarism checker used by SNHU that matches submitted work against a national database of other college assignments, database research sources, and web sources. TurnItIn is only visible to instructors; if it is being used in your course, you can ask your instructor for a copy of your report, which will be generated as soon as you submit your paper for grading.
- Grammarly: A free online plagiarism checker that can also assist with grammar and proofreading.
- EasyBib Plagiarism and Grammar Checker: Paste or upload your paper and get suggestions on grammar and style. Directly add citations you missed.
- Duplichecker: Copy & Paste or upload your file. Each sentence is reviewed and source content websites are displayed.
- Quetext: Analyzed by lexical frequencies, phrase patterns and other factors. Then your text is mapped into an internal network compared to tthe internet and other databases.
Additionally, a simple Google search can oftentimes detect plagiarism. Instructors can just put a sentence or two of a student's paper into Google and see if there are any matches.
