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Q: Who can recommend a good free plagiarism checker, except grammarly?
8 years 3 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
The Clinton campaign?
They caught Trumps wife out 
Silly answer I know. But it gets your question on the front board
No.
Certainly not if you're trying to check plagiarism from Chinese students.
I had this (self-appointed) job for a UK Pre-Master's Program I worked with - pretty high level stuff.
Their papers were run through some of the best plagiarism checkers on the market - Turnitin etc. Came up with low scores.
I then did my own check, using Baidu, Yahoo, Bing... I took a few ... 'interesting' sentences (words and phrases I was fairly sure they couldn't/wouldn't have come up with themselves), and see what hit. Bingo! Found them!
One perfect example was a boy who refused to listen to us teachers, and use phrases like "Arouse resonance"..... I have no idea what that's supposed to mean... and I doubt he really did. And, I suspect, the guy who wrote 90% of that paper, and uploaded it to Baidu - which he took it all from (word for word, chapter by chapter) didn't know either... Turnitin didn't flag it :(
Plagiarism checkers only work if something has been through their system previously. If it hasn't, it's 'new'.
And, most Chinese students will use Baidu to find their copy-able stuff.
Sure, takes time... but if you're in a higher-stakes job, I'd suggest it's worth it (10 mins each or so...).
ScotsAlan:
"Arouse resonance"? Sounds like banker talk for " encourage feedback, reply, encourage more feedback" It's actually very clever use of two words to explain a concept. I sort of like it. I might use that on my director tomorrow :-)
Shining_brow:
Well, his use of that phrase automatically sprang up when I entered it into Baidu - took seconds to find his paper because of it! Cos, the idiot chose to trust to that paper written by a NNES, rather than have two master's degree level linguistics trained English teachers tell him it doesn't work in English... It was his final paper, and should have had him instantly failed! I really hope he did the same in the UK, and got kicked out of uni for it!
Btw - it was about The Voice of China.. and why it was so popular... it "arouses resonance"...?????
