How To Check For Plagiarism in Grammarly & Is It Any Good?

Faculty of Apps
18 Oct 202004:37

TLDRThe video compares Grammarly's premium plagiarism tool with a free online alternative, QTex.com, by testing on various texts including an original piece, a famous quote from Charles Dickens, a movie review, and a paragraph from a biology textbook. While Grammarly's tool occasionally overzealous or incorrect, QTex.com provides slightly more accurate results. The video concludes that there's not much difference between Grammarly's premium feature and free online tools, offering viewers an insightful perspective on plagiarism checking options.

Takeaways

  • 📝 The video compares Grammarly's plagiarism tool with a free online plagiarism checker, QTex.
  • 💰 Grammarly's plagiarism checker is a premium feature, whereas QTex is free to use.
  • 📄 The test includes four documents: one original, and three sourced from the internet (a famous novel intro, a movie review, and a textbook paragraph).
  • 🔍 In the first test, Grammarly incorrectly flags the original text as similar to content on JustAnswer.com, while QTex correctly finds no matches.
  • 📚 For the famous opening lines from 'A Tale of Two Cities', Grammarly fails to find a match, while QTex identifies a different source than the one used.
  • 🎥 When testing the New York Times movie review, both Grammarly and QTex successfully identify the text as originating from the newspaper.
  • 📖 In the last test with a high school biology textbook paragraph, Grammarly and QTex both recognize the text but from different websites than the source.
  • 🤔 The video suggests that while Grammarly is a premium service, the difference in performance between it and free tools like QTex is not significant.
  • 📈 The results imply that both tools have their strengths and weaknesses in detecting plagiarism.
  • 🔗 The video creator encourages viewers to subscribe to their channel and visit their blog, Faculty of Apps, for more tips and information.
  • 🙏 The video aims to be helpful, and the creator thanks the viewers for watching.

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.

  • What are the four documents the speaker created for the test?

    -The speaker created four documents: one original piece of writing, a famous introductory paragraph from Charles Dickens' novel 'A Tale of Two Cities', a movie review from The New York Times, and a paragraph from a high school biology textbook called 'Concepts of Biology'.

  • How did Grammarly's plagiarism checker perform on the speaker's original writing?

    -Grammarly's plagiarism checker identified the first seven words as similar to content found on JustAnswer.com, which the speaker considered an overzealous result since it was an original work.

  • What was the result of using Grammarly's plagiarism checker on the famous opening lines from 'A Tale of Two Cities'?

    -Grammarly's plagiarism checker failed to find any matching text on the internet and incorrectly marked the writing as 100% original.

  • How did QTex perform in comparison to Grammarly for the 'A Tale of Two Cities' text?

    -QTex identified some of the text but from a different website than the one used by the speaker. It mentioned Charles Dickens in the results, which was considered a better performance than Grammarly.

  • What was the outcome when the speaker tested the New York Times movie review with Grammarly and QTex?

    -Both Grammarly and QTex successfully identified the text as coming from the newspaper article, but from different websites.

  • How did Grammarly's plagiarism checker perform on the paragraph from 'Concepts of Biology'?

    -Grammarly recognized the text from a website, but not from Amazon.com where the speaker took the text. It provided a similar result to QTex.

  • What was the final verdict of the video on the effectiveness of Grammarly's premium feature versus free checking tools?

    -The video concluded that there is not much difference between Grammarly's premium feature and free checking tools available on the internet.

  • How can viewers find more tips and videos like the one in the video?

    -Viewers can subscribe to the channel and visit the blog facultyofapps.com for more tips and similar videos.

  • What was the main issue with Grammarly's plagiarism checker in the video?

    -The main issue was that Grammarly's plagiarism checker was sometimes overzealous and inaccurate in identifying original content or matching text from the correct source.

  • What is the significance of the results from the free online tool QTex in the video?

    -The results from QTex are significant because they provided a point of comparison to Grammarly's premium tool, showing that free tools can be just as effective in some cases.

Outlines

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🔍 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 has prepared four documents for the test: one original piece of writing and three texts taken from 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 as compared to the free online tool, QTex.com.

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Keywords

💡Plagiarism tool

A plagiarism tool is a software or service designed to detect instances of plagiarism in written work by comparing it to a database of existing content. In the video, the focus is on comparing Grammarly's plagiarism checker with a free online tool to see which is more effective at identifying copied text.

💡Premium subscribers

Premium subscribers refer to users who have paid for an upgraded version of a service, in this case, Grammarly's writing assistant. These users typically have access to additional features that are not available to users of the free version.

💡Free online plagiarism tool

A free online plagiarism tool is a service available on the internet that allows users to check for plagiarism without any cost. These tools often have limitations compared to premium services but can still be effective for basic plagiarism detection.

💡Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was a renowned English writer and social critic, known for his novels, including 'A Tale of Two Cities.' His work is often used as an example of classic literature and is in the public domain, meaning his texts can be freely used and adapted.

💡New York Times movie review

The New York Times movie review refers to a critical assessment of a film, written by a journalist from the well-known newspaper, The New York Times. These reviews are considered authoritative and influential in the film industry and are typically copyrighted material.

💡High school biology textbook

A high school biology textbook is an educational resource used to teach biology at the secondary education level. These textbooks contain information on various biological concepts and are often subject to copyright protection.

💡QTex.com

QTex.com is a free online plagiarism detection website mentioned in the video. It is used as a point of comparison to Grammarly's premium plagiarism checker to evaluate its effectiveness against a free alternative.

💡Originality

Originality refers to the quality of being innovative, unique, or首创的, in the context of writing, it indicates that the content is the author's own creation and not copied from other sources. The video discusses the ability of plagiarism tools to determine the originality of texts.

💡Overzealous

Overzealous means being too enthusiastic or aggressive in one's actions, often to the point of excess. In the context of the video, it describes how Grammarly's plagiarism checker may incorrectly flag content as plagiarized when it is not.

💡Creative Commons license

A Creative Commons license is a type of copyright license that allows creators to share their work under certain conditions, such as allowing others to use, share, or build upon their work, often with attribution. These licenses are designed to balance the rights of creators with the needs of the public.

💡Comparative analysis

Comparative analysis is the process of comparing two or more items to determine their similarities and differences. In the context of the video, it involves evaluating the performance of Grammarly's plagiarism checker against a free online tool to see which one performs better at identifying plagiarism.

Highlights

The video demonstrates the use of Grammarly's plagiarism tool in comparison with a free online plagiarism tool.

Grammarly's plagiarism checker is available only to premium subscribers.

The author created four documents for testing, including original work and texts from various sources.

The first document is an original piece of writing by the author, which should not trigger any plagiarism alerts.

The second document is a famous excerpt from Charles Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities'.

The third document is a movie review from The New York Times for 'Hubie Halloween'.

The fourth document is a paragraph from a high school biology textbook 'Concepts of Biology'.

The free online plagiarism tool used for comparison is called QTex.com.

Grammarly incorrectly identified the author's original work as similar to content on JustAnswer.com.

QTex returned a nil result for the author's original work, indicating no plagiarism.

Grammarly failed to find a match for the 'A Tale of Two Cities' excerpt, deeming it 100% original.

QTex identified parts of the Dickens excerpt from a different website, but not the one used.

Grammarly successfully identified the New York Times movie review as plagiarized content.

QTex also recognized the movie review text, but from an archived version on archive.org.

Both tools identified the biology textbook paragraph as plagiarized, but from different websites.

The educational site identified by QTex is offering the textbook 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.