You read a text – a student essay, a blog post, a media article, whatever – and can’t make away with deja vu. The text sounds as if you’ve seen it before. Plagiarism checkers don’t see anything wrong with it but… Darn!… The catch is somewhere around here. Savvy educators and editors know this catch. Synonymized plagiarism is its name.
“If all is that simple, why shall I spend time and money on plagiarism detections unable to discover duplications?”
First, not all plagiarism checkers are created equal. (Spoiler alert: ours recognizes synonyms.) And second, some tricks exist to help you discover this type of plagiarism in texts; in this article, we are going to share them. But first things first:
What’s So Tricky About Synonymization?
The more advanced technologies appear to beat plagiarism, the more loopholes cheaters try to find to circumvent restrictions. Speaking of students, they do attempts to cheat the educational system when writing academic papers. With all those essays, reviews, theses, and dissertations assigned, most youngsters prefer expending energy on doing manipulations with others’ works rather than spend time on creating own. They go to the web in search of content on corresponding topics, rewrite it with no references, replacing original words with synonyms, and wait for A+ from professors. The favorite resource for such manipulations is Wikipedia.
- It’s wrong to steal content.
- It’s embarrassing.
- Consequences are far from pleasant.
Use advanced plagiarism checkers and consider your human powers to detect this plagiarism type instantly.
How PlagiarismCheck.org Detects Synonymization
Here’s the passage from the article of Christopher Jan Benitez, a professional freelance writer and our friend who kindly shared the review of PlagiarismCheck.org with his readers. Let’s insert it in the checker field and review the results:
What You Can Do Yourself to Detect Synonymization
“To exist, or not to exist? That is the query.”
- It doesn’t sound natural: weird grammar constructions, low readability, word choice fails the context.
- It closely echoes texts you’ve already read.
- It doesn’t fit the writing style of a given author: his or her other works sound different.
- It has too many stop words, wish-wash, redundant adverbs and adjectives, passive voice, parentheses, and other lexical items with no meaning.
- It doesn’t sound like a logical narration: sentences or paragraphs seem unrelated to each other.