How to check for plagiarism in your assignments

Plagiarism means taking of someone else’s work and ideas without correctly giving the credit. We can also say it’s an unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work.
Generally students tend to plagiarize assignments and projects. If they are caught they have to face many consequences such as facing penalty or even termination. Therefore, every student should check for plagiarism before submission of their assignments and homework.

HelpWithAssignment.com, which regularly uses such tools, has done a thorough analysis of the options available to students on 2 parameters – cost and quality of check. Here are the results and the HwA ranks for all options.

According to the above information there are many sites which help the students in checking for plagiarism. Some are free in but in terms of quality they are low for example, the likes of Article checker and Plagiarism Checker. Websites such as Copyscape and Turnitin are used by many leading Universities and Colleges. These are high quality services but have to be paid for usage.
Therefore, if you have written an article and know that only internet based resources have been used; students can go in for any of the free options listed above. However, when in doubt students should use better tools such as turnitin.com.

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