Bypass anti-plagiarism, increase originality: myths and reality

In the educational and, unfortunately, in the scientific environment, one of the most topical topics is the struggle for the uniqueness of the text. Whether it’s a student essay, a thesis, a scientific article or a dissertation, they are all currently checked for plagiarism in order to determine their uniqueness.

The review of this problem should begin with an analysis of the essence of such a phenomenon as plagiarism. Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s material without reference to its authorship and presenting it as one’s own. It can be products of literary, scientific, artistic and other creativity. In the case of students, as a rule, we are talking about the use in their educational work of borrowed materials from published articles, abstracts, reports, monographs. And here the questions arise, how to increase the originality of the text with anti-plagiarism check.

Since 2006, text analysis systems have emerged and rapidly spread to detect incorrect borrowings. A new page was opened in the practice of reviewing educational, scientific and literary works. Since then, teachers have not only used, but also advised students which anti-plagiarism to choose in order to increase the level of originality of work.

Quite often, students and graduate students work day and night on the text, but its uniqueness does not rise above 50-70%. What is going on? Why does the job not meet the specified parameters? What needs to be done to stop this from being a nightmare for young authors? Naturally, the first answer that comes to mind is to find out what kind of anti-plagiarism is used in order to know how to get around it and increase the level of originality of the work.

There must be some algorithms that allow you to achieve these goals, and if they exist, then where and how to find them. There is reality and there are myths. Let’s try to understand them.

Reality.

Do such algorithms really exist and how versatile they are. Which anti-plagiarism to choose in order to increase originality, and at the same time find out in what other works this text was used.

1. The best way to “rip off” this text is to retell it in your own words. To do this, it is enough to remember how presentations are written at school: they listen carefully, remember what they can, and then write what is left in their heads. This is the best way to increase the originality of the article to the required requirements, but at the same time the most time-consuming. But on the other hand, useful for the professional growth of the author. Often it is also called deep text processing. In the practice of professional writing texts for material reward, this technique is called rewriting, that is, when the form changes, the content of the text does not change.

2. Change the structure of sentences. Especially often this technique is used in complex subordinate clauses. If you swap the main and subordinate sentences, while using synonyms, you can deceive the search engine. If you have difficulty finding suitable synonyms, you should use the synonymizer.
3. A careful study of the source will suggest another way to increase uniqueness – this is the transformation of repetitions that can often occur in the text. Instead, use synonyms and unambiguous phrases.
4. It is advisable to replace tables, formulas, calculations with screenshots and images, since the originality of stamps cannot be changed. Due to the fact that anti-plagiarism does not fix them, this allows you to increase originality.
5. Translation of sources from a foreign language. The translation itself will appear as a completely unique text, since all programs are built according to Russian language algorithms.
6. Selection of published texts not indexed by search engines. They can be searched among publications, diplomas, dissertations located in closed catalogs, on foreign websites, in specialized libraries.

Myths.

The myths here will include non-working forms of anti-plagiarism bypass and deceit. It’s no secret that plagiarism detection systems are getting better every year. Those methods of bypassing systems that were efficient and effective yesterday no longer work today. But they are still found in the offers of firms that allegedly “know how to increase anti-plagiarism in effective ways” for a fee. These include:

1. Swap words in sentences, sentences in paragraphs, paragraphs in text.
2. Merge and split sentences.
3. Replacing letters of the Russian alphabet identical in spelling with Latin and Greek letters is already easily recognized.
4. Replace punctuation marks with each other and spaces with punctuation marks.
5. Enabling automatic hyphenation changes the structure of the text and can create a problem for search engines. This technique is widely known and teachers often ask to change the formatting.

If we are talking about points 3, 4 and 5 of the above list, then it should be remembered that when formatting the text that is used when processing the manuscript before typing, all these “tricks” are clearly highlighted. The conclusion from this is simple: if the article is intended for publication in a journal, then the techniques associated with text formatting, deliberate distortion of spelling and editing rules become obvious and obvious with all the ensuing consequences for the author.

In addition, all the considered attempts to circumvent anti-plagiarism in order to increase the percentage of originality often lead to a conflict with the content or, better to say, the readability of texts.

At present, the optimal wishes and requirements for scientific student and postgraduate work are: the study of 3-4 sources and uniqueness at the level of 70-75%. Knowing the basic rules of operation of the programs used for testing will help you fulfill these requirements and write a good paper.

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