How to check text for uniqueness online and computer programs
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Everyone who has to create texts for study or work is faced with the need to make their essay unique. How to check the text for uniqueness, what resources are most convenient for this, you will learn from this article.
Now about what uniqueness student papers should have. There is no single generally accepted norm for the uniqueness of scientific work. As a rule, educational institutions themselves determine the minimum allowable percentage. It may depend on the topic. As a rule, the lower threshold for uniqueness for a diploma is 70% - 80%, for term paper - 50% - 70%, for an abstract - 40%. The students I interviewed from several Russian cities confirmed the data.
Is absolute uniqueness possible?
It would seem that what is easier - write everything from your own head - and a high result will be ensured. But not all information can be gleaned from personal experience, and if you can, then there is a risk of accidentally repeating some phrases after someone, especially terms and professionalism.
If you are dealing with a new topic, you have to turn to third-party sources, both printed (but they are usually digitized) and electronic. Some topics, say jurisprudence, require citation; in such areas as medicine, construction, etc., one cannot do without the repeated use of terminology, and, as you know, it is not subject to distortion.
It turns out that no text can be absolutely unique, because we all use the same language, which means that in our works there are combinations of words that were heard earlier. And yet, the program can recognize your creation as 100% unique.
How do services for checking text for uniqueness work?
What is the uniqueness of the text in anti-plagiarism? This is the percentage ratio of the author's text to the text registered on the network, and not individual words are taken into account, but their combinations. This is correct, because the words we use are almost the same.
Usually, the definition of uniqueness is carried out by comparing some units of text - shingles. A single is a piece of text, usually between 3 and 10 words. Different programs choose different lengths of the shingle, which affects the accuracy and severity of the check.
Let's say that the program algorithm is set to match 20 samples of 10 words for every thousand words, while the length of the shingle is three words. This means that each piece of ten words is checked for repetition of three-word fragments with other previously published text resources.
Of course, the probability that someone before us used the constructions: “in this case”, “analysis of the facts showed”, “find a good job”, “not badly off your head”, etc. is high, and, therefore, in As a result, we get a low indicator of uniqueness even if it is written completely independently.
Therefore, the optimal length of the shingle is 5-7 words, in this case the probability of exact repetition (when writing independently) is much less, which means that the uniqueness is higher. Since the length of the shingle varies, the results of checking the text in different resources will vary. That is why it is better to test your own creativity either in several programs or in a place recommended by the customer.
Where can I check the text for uniqueness?
You can check how much your text is copied by others online, by uploading it to the site, or by downloading the program to your computer. Each method has its pros and cons. Let's take a look at various resources.
Checking with downloaded programs
If you need to repeatedly use anti-plagiarism, I recommend installing the program on a PC, because there are no restrictions on the frequency of checks.
Advego Plagiatus is one of the most popular programs. It is downloaded to your computer for free from the official website and can perform a quick and deep scan. With a quick check, the percentage of copy-paste in the text is recognized, with a deep check, the uniqueness of the content and rewriting is revealed, while non-unique fragments are highlighted.
The length of the shingle can be set in the settings (range - from 2 to 10). The default value is 4. I checked the report for the philological conference with quotes from G. Gazdanov and dictionary entries and links to third-party resources. A deep check assessed the level of uniqueness of my text as satisfactory (65 - 67%) and called it a rewrite, although the report was created completely independently. The process took approximately 1.5 minutes.
During the check, I had to constantly enter captcha, which causes inconvenience, not allowing me to be distracted by other things at this time. This problem is easily solved by captcha recognition (anti-captcha) services: Antigate or ruCaptcha.
Another program for checking uniqueness. Several levels of verification are available in it (from express to deep, as well as checking for rewriting and checking all pages of the site and all files in the folder). Upon completion, a detailed report is provided.
Checking a four-page document took me about 15 seconds. The standard check rated the level of uniqueness as 69%, deep - 70%. All coincidences (and they turned out to be entirely quotes from Gazdanov's novels) are calculated as a percentage and highlighted.
Online check
Now about sites where you can determine the uniqueness of a document without loading yourself and your computer with unnecessary settings. This makes sense if the article is small in size and you do not need to check it too often.
The undoubted advantage of this popular service is the ability to check the uniqueness of the text without registration, however, with small queues and volume limits of up to 15,000 characters. The service allows you to determine not only uniqueness, but also the number of characters, the presence of errors, as well as spamming (repetitions) and "water".
And, if highlighting tautologies and typos brings unambiguous benefits, then opinions about what is considered “water” may differ between a machine and a person. For those very lyrical digressions and examples from life, thanks to which the written becomes brighter, can fall into this category. Who knows, perhaps Gogol's words about the trio bird would be advised by the computer to be excluded from Dead Souls.
The good news is that even when checking without registration, the site will highlight all the sources with which you have phrase matches, and highlight the similarities themselves.
The creators call their method of text analysis fundamentally different from the shingles method and promise more accurate detection of rewriting, so the severity of verification using this resource can be assessed as high.
Also (in case you don’t have a lot of orders at the moment), the site can be used as an order exchange, only the prices are not very high.
As a result, my article was 63.74% unique. Highlighted quotes from the works of Gazdanov.
You can carry out 10 free checks per day on this site. True, for this you need to register (the procedure is simple and fast). After registration, in order to go from the main menu of the site to verification, you need to click on the link above again or open the “Tools” tab at the top and select “Uniqueness check”.
The check is available by the copied text fragment or by URL. The limit is 10,000 characters. After about 20 seconds of waiting, I got the result: the text of my article is 85% unique. The coincidence is highlighted with only one site - this is the electronic version of G. Gazdanov's novel "Night Roads".
Miralinks also has a freelance exchange - everything for 500 rubles. True, the performer receives not 500, but 400 rubles in his hands, and the rest go to the commission for the site. Here you can advertise yourself not only as a copywriter or community administrator, but also as a compiler of individual tourist routes or a vacation consultant at a selected resort.
I wish you creative success, easy checks and excellent results!