Plagiarism check and plagiarism control of Bachelor theses, Master theses and dissertations

In the plagiarism check we offer, your document (usually a Bachelor thesis, Master thesis or dissertation) is checked for plagiarism using special software. In the process, your document is compared with millions of documents available online.

Passages in your work that seem to have been taken from other sources or which already appear elsewhere are made visible. These passages can be checked individually afterwards to see whether they have been named as sources. In most cases you will still discover isolated passages that have not been marked as acquired by you from other sources, and these will not be deemed as plagiarised. Ideally, with our plagiarism-checking service your checked document will end up not including any instances of potential plagiarism.

Our plagiarism-checking service aims to ensure that no passage in the text that could be construed as plagiarism on the part of the author has in fact been overlooked.

Everyone has to address this question for themselves. You could just as well ask, “Do I need a spare wheel in the desert?” So a plagiarism check is not mandatory, but it’s definitely recommended by many institutions. After all, you’ve spent a lot of time preparing your thesis. You’ve tried to follow the guidelines: font, font size, citation styles, bibliography conventions, etc. In addition, you undertook a great deal of research, possibly conducted interviews and had them transcribed and arranged.

But unfortunately, you may have overlooked that one place in your work that you hadn’t mark as “cited”. This can be interpreted as plagiarism – result: a failed paper.

This is where our “spare wheel” comes into play: with the plagiarism check, possible plagiarism can be identified in advance, and the risk of being confronted with an accusation of plagiarism is then vanishingly small.

So, do you need a plagiarism check – in other words, to have your thesis, term paper or dissertation checked for possible instances of plagiarism? We’d certainly recommend one.

Note: According to some students we’ve worked with, final theses at their university are no longer checked for plagiarism only on a random basis, but consistently. For this reason, we think a plagiarism check should be an absolute must.

€30.00 (+ 19% VAT) for up to 150 pages. For more than 150 pages, we’ll provide you with an individually tailored offer.

You’ll always receive an invoice from us detailing your name, the service we’ve provided, the amount and the bank details. You can pay us normally by bank transfer. For particularly urgent cases or for payments at the weekend, we also offer bank transfer via PayPal.

Please note that we safeguard ourselves against fraud by insisting on full prepayment for new customers.

So the software has now finished checking your document. You’ll notice that the software has always set margin marks where it has identified a possible instance of plagiarism.

However, the software works so meticulously that it often marks text passages that do not actually constitute plagiarism – for example, common phrases like “as mentioned above”. It’s only natural that phrases like this appear in other texts. You can therefore ignore such passages and simply delete the software’s marginal comment on them.

In addition, the software also tends to mark affidavits (like statutory declarations that appear on the title pages of dissertations), acknowledgements and large parts of the bibliography. You needn’t worry about this either, because it’s only logical that these formulations have already appeared elsewhere in the relevant academic literature. So you can simply delete the marginal comments in these places as well.

However, you should be more worried if longer sentences have been marked out in their entirety – perhaps even two or three sentences at a time. This is not forbidden as such, but you’ll need to check whether you’ve marked these “adopted” passages as originating from another source, either by means of a footnote or a note in brackets.

So you’ll need to scroll through the entire work and weigh up in each individual case whether it’s a standard phrase or content adopted from elsewhere. In most cases, you’ll find that you’ve worked conscientiously enough. But there may still be a few places remaining in the text that you’ve not cited as coming from other sources. And that’s a risk no writer can afford to take.

Contact us – by phone or in writing.

Telephone: +49 (30) 755 41 38 - 9

E-mail: info@hauptstadtstudio-freier-lektoren.de

Describe your request and ask for a quote (please give us an estimate of the number of pages).

It’s best to send us all the texts that you want us to check.