Paper Rater offers writing tools to assist students in evaluating their writing projects. The online service proofreads and identifies plagiarized material (“Find out if your paper contains plagiarized text before your professor does.”).
I copied an pasted some content from one of my web sites to see what would happen. The service did indicate that the material was plagiarized.
It also gave me a generally positive review of my writing skills.
There are free and premium versions of this service. At first glance, I must admit my reaction to the perspective on plagiarism was irritation. It seemed to be a way for a student to estimate the chance that he might get caught. I assume this is not what was intended, but I also assume that the understanding of when one has plagiarized should be easier to develop than other writing skills.
All in all, this is an interesting service addressing skills that are always a challenge to develop.
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