Ifeoma Jane
It is no news that plagiarism which is the use of another person’s work, words, or ideas without attribution is an offence, punishable under the law.
As an academic, plagiarism in any way can led to your failure or in some cases suspension from school.
Also, as a job seeker/employee, engaging in plagiarism in any way can lead to your not getting a job or your sack as the case may be.
It is against this backdrop that this article is written to show you tools you can use to check for plagiarism in your work before you click the ‘submit’ button.
Below are two reliable AI tools you should maximize;
1) Grammarly
This is a reliable and useful tool for both essay writing and plagiarism checking. Using Grammarly, you can fix spelling & grammar and punctuation errors in your content. Also, this powerful AI tool will analyse your content and highlight passive voice usage, hard-to-read sentences, wordy sentences, incorrect phrasings, and complex sentences.
Asides from these impressive features, Grammarly also boost of the ability to effectively check for plagiarism. To use the Grammarly plagiarism checker, you can manually write your content or upload your document. Although Grammarly shows the plagiarism score of your content for free, you need to purchase its premium subscription to see plagiarized sentences.
2) GPTZero
This is essentially a tool designed to detect content generated by ChatGPT. GPTZero is useful not only for detecting AI-generated content but also for checking plagiarism. It uses statistical data to understand if the given text is written by a human or AI.
