How To Check For Plagiarism in Grammarly & Is It Any Good?
TLDRThe video script presents a comparative analysis of Grammarly's premium plagiarism tool and a free online alternative, QTex.com. The author tests both tools using four documents, including original content and texts from various sources. While Grammarly's tool occasionally overshoots in detecting plagiarism, QTex.com provides more accurate results in some instances. The video concludes that there isn't a significant difference between Grammarly's premium feature and free online tools, offering viewers valuable insights into effective plagiarism detection methods.
Takeaways
- 📝 The video compares Grammarly's plagiarism tool with a free online plagiarism checker, QTex.
- 💰 Grammarly's plagiarism checker is a premium feature, while QTex is free to use.
- 📚 The test includes four documents: an original piece of writing, a famous quote from Charles Dickens, a movie review from The New York Times, and a paragraph from a high school biology textbook.
- 🤔 Grammarly incorrectly identified the original writing as similar to content on JustAnswer.com.
- 📖 QTex did not find any matches for the original writing, indicating a more accurate result.
- 🎬 For the famous opening lines from 'A Tale of Two Cities', Grammarly failed to find a match, while QTex identified a different source.
- 🎥 Grammarly successfully identified the New York Times movie review as non-original content.
- 🏫 QTex also recognized the movie review text, but from an archived version on archive.org.
- 📖 For the biology textbook paragraph, Grammarly identified a similar text from a different website than where the text was taken.
- 🔍 Both tools identified the biology textbook paragraph from different educational websites, with QTex finding a site offering the book under a Creative Commons license.
- 📈 The video concludes that there isn't much difference between Grammarly's premium feature and free online checking tools.
Q & A
What is the main topic of the video?
-The main topic of the video is a comparison between Grammarly's plagiarism tool and a free online plagiarism tool, QTex.
How many documents does the author create for the test?
-The author creates four documents for the test.
What is the source of the first document the author wrote?
-The first document is the author's own writing, which is a poor-quality piece of text.
Which famous introductory paragraph is used in the video for testing?
-The famous introductory paragraph from Charles Dickens' novel 'A Tale of Two Cities' is used.
How does Grammarly's plagiarism checker perform on the author's own writing?
-Grammarly's plagiarism checker mistakenly identifies the first seven words as similar to a text found on JustAnswer.com, showing it is overzealous in this instance.
What is the result of using QTex on the author's own writing?
-QTex returns a nil result, indicating that the text is 100% original, which is correct.
How does Grammarly handle the famous opening lines from 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
-Grammarly fails to find any matching text on the internet and incorrectly believes the writing to be 100% original.
What does QTex identify for the opening lines of 'A Tale of Two Cities'?
-QTex identifies some of the text from a different website, but it includes a mention of Charles Dickens in the results, making it a better outcome than Grammarly's.
How accurate is Grammarly in identifying the source of a New York Times movie review?
-Grammarly accurately identifies the text as coming from a New York Times newspaper article.
What is the result when comparing the biology textbook paragraph using both tools?
-Both Grammarly and QTex identify the text from different websites, but not the exact source used by the author, showing that while they are somewhat effective, they are not perfect.
What is the conclusion the author reaches regarding Grammarly's premium feature versus free checking tools?
-The author concludes that there isn't much difference between Grammarly's premium plagiarism checker and the free checking tools available on the internet.
Outlines
🔍 Comparing Grammarly's Plagiarism Checker to a Free Online Tool
The video begins with the creator introducing a comparison between Grammarly's premium plagiarism tool and a free online plagiarism checker. The creator sets up the test by preparing four documents, one original and three taken from various sources on the internet, including a famous quote from Charles Dickens, a movie review from The New York Times, and a paragraph from a high school biology textbook. The objective is to evaluate how effectively Grammarly's tool identifies plagiarism in comparison to the free online tool, QTex.com.
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Keywords
💡Plagiarism Tool
💡Grammarly
💡QTex.com
💡Charles Dickens
💡New York Times
💡High School Biology Textbook
💡Original Work
💡Internet Sources
💡Comparison
💡Online Tools
💡Creative Commons License
Highlights
The video demonstrates the use of Grammarly's plagiarism tool in comparison to a free online plagiarism tool.
Grammarly's plagiarism checker is available only to premium subscribers.
The author has created four documents for the test, including one original piece of writing and three taken from the internet.
The first document is an original, poorly written piece that should not trigger any plagiarism alerts.
The second document is an excerpt from Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities' from the Gutenberg Press website.
The third document is a movie review from The New York Times for 'Hubbie Halloween'.
The fourth document is a paragraph from a high school biology textbook 'Concepts of Biology' found on Amazon.
The free online testing site used for comparison is called QTex.com.
Grammarly incorrectly identifies the author's original work as similar to content on JustAnswer.com.
QTex does not find any plagiarism in the author's original work, providing a more accurate result.
Grammarly fails to find matching text for the famous opening lines of 'A Tale of Two Cities', incorrectly marking it as 100% original.
QTex identifies some of the text from 'A Tale of Two Cities' from a different website, providing a better result than Grammarly.
Both Grammarly and QTex successfully identify the New York Times movie review as plagiarized content.
Grammarly and QTex identify different sources for the plagiarized paragraph from the biology textbook, with Grammarly finding a non-Amazon website.
The educational site identified by QTex for the biology textbook paragraph is offering the book under a Creative Commons license.
The video concludes that there is not much difference between Grammarly's premium feature and free checking tools available online.
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