Copyscape Protects Your Account
Because No One Wants to Get Blamed for Plagiarism!
With the flagging tool Associated Content is using you risk losing your account, your upfront payments and your reputation as a writer if you are caught plagiarizing. I know many people state that they do not plagiarize and I don't either. Running one of my articles through Copyscape before I
submitted, showed that I plagiarized from a site I have never seen before. This isn't unique to me either. It has happened to other AC writers as well.
What can you do to protect yourself from being flagged and possibly banned from AC? It's a small investment in a program called Copyscape.
What is Copyscape?
Copyscape is a program that can help you by comparing your article to other articles online. If Copyscape finds that your article is close to another websites article it will show you by listing those websites article next to yours. For five cents a scan for 2000 words, you can run your newly written article through Copyscape to see if it is unique. At five cents a scan, I saw it as a great investment to protect my account and writing reputation. A quick scan through Copyscape of two of my newly written articles, one on Pompholyx and one on boating activities for children, found the possibility of plagiarism.
Plagiarism
Wikipedia states that plagiarism is the use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work. So basically, if you copy and pasted something from an article or website, you are plagiarizing. There will be times when you write something that is common knowledge and the content manager will find it as plagiarism when they scan it, even though you never saw the website. I have heard many Content Producers on Associated Content complain that they were flagged because they wrote it solely from themselves with no help from any other website. You can prevent this from happening by using Copyscape.
Two examples of Copyscape Helping me
The Pompholyx article was worded the same as another source online because of the description of the condition. This is common in many medical articles. I simply changed my wording and reordered the list of symptoms. Another scan through Copyscape showed no results.
The article on boating activities for children listed a game we play. I wrote the article from my own experience with no help from any other site. The scan through Copyscape showed that my wording was verbatim to another site online that was advertising the product. Weird, but it happens! Again, I reworded my article and a second scan through Copyscape showed that article was unique.
Sign up for Copyscape Premium and use it
Copyscape Premium accounts are fast and easy to set up. I think the investment is well worth it. It saved my career twice so far! Copyscape could save yours too!
Published by Dotchi Latham
Latham has been writing since the age of 16 when she started writing poetry and short stories. She has written articles around the web and is honing her writing skills. View profile
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12 Comments
Post a CommentThanks. It's been a very useful tool to me. Glad it helped.
This is something I've never heard of or considered. Great article!
Great article. I never heard of this before.
Thanks for this excellent article
Great advice. It sounds like many honest people have been accused of plagerism.
Great information! Thanks for sharing.
I have Copyscape; actually now I know I need to write 100 articles before 11/2009 but twenty have already been submitted. I have yet to get anything similar in the results. I guess to plagarise, you have to be pretty close to someone else's stuff.
Oh it's very reasonable! I paid .05 for one scan. I bought 100 scans at a time. I still have 80-something on there. It's well worth it IMO.
I know that Michy also recommends Copyscape. The price actually is very reasonable.
Thank you :)