On receiving documents which need to be circulated to a large audience, you need to be very sure that the document you are distributing is original. If Let us visit a few: The first and the best technique is to "Google" any suspicious content. Any search engine for that matter helps you to identify copied content. All you need to do is to paste the content in double quotes as the search query. Although this is a very simple technique, it is ineffective for verifying content which is extremely well paraphrased and rearranged.

If your boss asks you to "copyscape" content, don't be surprised! It simply means that he wants you to check the authenticity of the reports. "Copyscape" is a web-based mechanism to detect whether the content appears on other websites. This service is developed by "Indigo Stream Technologies, Ltd." It works similar to the search engine technique, since it uses "Google APls". Here however, you can check content which is mainly on a website itself. Although you can check offline content, the results are not quite satisfactory. The free service on .. Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search - Web Site Content Copyright Protection .. displays to you the top 10 results and links which may be the sources for the data at your disposal. The major advantage which "Copyscape" enjoys over search engines is that the Google API has been tweaked to not only pick up direct reproduction of text, but also phases which are alarmingly similar.



For providing stronger offline assistance, a number of software packages like "Turnltln", "OrCheck" [Originality Checkerl, "PRAISE" [Prioritised Ring to Assist In Similarity Evaluationsl, "VAST" [Visual Analysis of Similarity Tooll,"FreeStyler" and "Jstynalyser" [both for style analysis) have been in created. They have become an absolute necessity in colleges and universities, since such locations have scores of essays and thesis submitted periodically. Most of the students are neither professional writers, and most do not understand the seriousness of the offence they commit. While many people admit that they find it too tempting to lift off existing material, they do so because of a varied nature of reasons.

The software applications above mentioned, provide a statistical analysis of the plagiarism ration, along with the original sources. Some also facilitate side by side comparative analysis of the original text with the plagiarized one. Overall, the idea of using such software applications is to save yourself from any legal hassles, especially when you are not the one generating the said malicious content.