Comments on: Cheaters Beware – CheckForPlagiarism.net

By: Katja PL

Katja PL — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:12:34 +0000

I used this service to correct a master thesis for my law school. I was really disappointed and unsatisfied with the work that they did. It is true that they diminished the plagiarism percentage in my paper, but it was mostly done by deleting whole chunks of text from the paper, mostly not rephrasing sentences or introducing quotations. The paper thus did not have the same message any more.
Furthermore, they introduced spelling and grammatical mistakes, not corrected them. It was obvious they did not even do a spell-check in the end, and whoever was “correcting” the paper was probably not a well-educated native English speaker, let alone a lawyer.
For instance, a lawyer would have known that there is no such collocation as “EU Partner states”, they are always called “EU Member States”, and that the word “Article” is always capitalised.
I could not hand in the paper as they returned it to me, it became unusable. It was definitely not on the level of the Master’s programme of my university, and I would have been failed if I handed it in as they changed it.
Waste of money …….

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:08:03 +0000

I have research paper that need to be checked and corrected. It’s approximately 90 pages, can you help me and how much will that cost me.

By: JohnR

JohnR — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:48:01 +0000

Sorry to be so late coming in on this discussion.

Did you come across the page “CheckForPlagiarism.net – What makes our Plagiarism Checking Service unique?”

It doesn’t seem so unique – all the statistics quoted there (without quotation marks) are a word-for-word copy of the Plagiarism.org facts page

I can’t help wondering, what kind of plagiarism detection site plagiarizes from other sites?

I don’t like the answer I came up with – do you have a take on this?

Thanks, jr

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By: Tips

Tips — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:40:03 +0000

looks cool.
Better than copyscape.
i will be trying them out soon.

By: JK Swopes

JK Swopes — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:39:18 +0000

Wow, I only knew about Copyscape, but this seems to take it to another level.

For professional/freelance writters that would be very nice.

By: Tyler Cruz

Tyler Cruz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:48:40 +0000

Hi Jason,

Normally, advertisers offer a temporary free account to reviewers in their description. Also, since the transaction was done through ReviewMe, I was pressured by their timeframe to put the review up and only had around 65 hours left I believe.

Normally, if you had purchased the review from me directly, I would have asked you for a test account. However, because of the deadline, I didn’t request for one because I didn’t have time to wait for a day or two for a reply.

I will update the post in the “Plagiarism upon Plagiarism?” section though to confirm that both sites are indeed owned by the same company.

Regarding the copyright notice, I did check that, but one site says:

…while the other says:

So that didn’t help me

Anyhow, will update the post right now.

By: Tyler Cruz

Tyler Cruz — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:37:23 +0000

I was a bit confused to this as well, but there are some people in our niche who would find this of use.

As mentioned in the review, I run a movie review site and sometimes volunteer reviewers will apply for a position on the site and send in partly plagiarized reviews. If my movie site was bigger, I might use a service such as CheckForPlagiarism.net to help weed out such plagiarists.