Tips for Preventing Plagiarism

• QuillBot Plagiarism Checker : QuillBot’s plagiarism checker is highly affordable and the platform has other powerful features to support your writing.
• Grammarly : Grammarly also offers plagiarism checking with its grammar checking features. It’s available with a premium plan.
• ProWritingAid : This tool helps you improve the quality of your work and will accurately check and highlight content that is plagiarised.
• WordTune : This offers plagiarism-checking options with its paid plans.
• Copyscape Pro: Copyscape is an academic plagiarism checker with for cheap and reliable checks to avoid plagiarism.

The easy explanation of plagiarism is copying and using other people’s work and not giving credit for it.

It doesn’t matter if you ‘borrowed’ some writing from a school kid’s paper online or if you used a few paragraphs from an out-of-print book.

If it’s copied, unedited, and uncredited, it’s plagiarised.

It’s also possible to plagiarise yourself by copying your own work without crediting the original, earlier source.

In academic institutions i.e. school, college, universities, and research institutes, plagiarism is severely punished.

A person can lose their seat in a school, get kicked out of a program, lose their job, their license, or something else vital to their careers.

And in situations where you write content for websites, plagiarising your posts will result in a ban. Your content will get removed and you may struggle to work with such places again.

And you’ll find it hard to win trust or grow in your field if you’re caught plagiarising.

It doesn’t matter if you unintentionally copy an idea or work from someone else.

If you’re caught, you face the consequences/punishment depending on the situation.

What about when you think of something from scratch but someone else had the same idea before you?

Unfortunately, you'd be guilty of plagiarism in this case too.

Even if you came to a conclusion on your own, had an original idea, or came up with a phrase entirely from thinking, it’s considered plagiarism if there’s a record of someone else doing it before you.

This is why it’s important to do your research before you submit a paper, book, or any content.

Today, there are many tools to make the process easy.

There AI-writing tools that will help you do research, find sources, add citations, check for grammar, and avoid plagiarism.

Paraphrasing tools are AI-driven editing tools that will rephrase your content.

Use a paraphrasing tool to improve your writing and make it sound more academic, fluent, simple, expanded, or match whatever you want.

Here are some of the best paraphrasing tools you can use:

• QuillBot – Free . I have afull review of all of QuillBot’s features here. You can paraphrase up to 125 words at once. And you’ll need the premium edition to rewrite more.
• Grammarly – Free . If you have the Grammarly tool, use its floating widget tool (with the Chrome extension) to rewrite or paraphrase content according to your needs.
• Wordtune – Free . But you’re limited to paraphrasing a sentence at a time. Also learn about all of Wordtune’s features here . 

You can use citation generators to add sources and cite ebooks, papers, physical books, and websites appropriately.

For example, Wordtune will research information right on its editor! You can find academic papers and online sources by just writing what you want and clicking on ‘Spices’.

Similarly, QuillBot offers similar research options for students, teachers, researchers, and academics.

These tools will also add proper citations in your chosen style. This will save you hours of work, and make adding sources and references very convenient.

You also learned how to use AI tools to write plagiarism-free content.

So, make sure to use the tools mentioned above and develop your own unique content that’s free from any plagiarism.

When done correctly, you can be proud of your work knowing it stands on its merit and is genuinely yours.