Antiplagiarism check: how not to be afraid?

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Hello students!

How can you fight this outrage and defeat the unfortunate anti-plagiarism system? Who came up with it and why is it needed? These questions arise for thousands of students every time an anti-plagiarism check shows 30–40% originality.

What is plagiarism? If you look it up in a dictionary, you can find the following definition: “Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s literary or scientific work as your own.” And in order to stop such copying attempts, a program called Anti-Plagiarism was created.

The originality percentage, or the so-called “plagiarism check,” is one of the main requirements that lecturers currently impose on student papers. To identify borrowed fragments in a text, there are many specialized applications and services.

How to prepare a relevant paper?

Choosing a topic is of great importance. Of course, it is possible to achieve the required text originality by choosing an unusual and non-standard topic, but then problems with finding sources may arise. On the other hand, if you choose a topic with a lot of available information, the paper is unlikely to receive a high level of originality. You won’t be able to reinvent the wheel, and for example, the word “engine” has no true synonyms — you can’t just write about a “motor” or a “power unit” instead. Scientific style, reliability, and literacy have not been canceled.

What should you do? Look for a unique topic that still has enough material to write about. And if you have no ideas at all, we recommend contacting your department. There, you may be offered several topics, or even a whole list. Whether they will be interesting is another question, but the fact that they will be 100% relevant (at least from the professors’ point of view) is beyond doubt.

What do you need to know about text originality?

Uniqueness is a process that consists of several steps. How many exactly? It all depends on you. If you are a conscientious author and wrote your thesis or any other paper yourself, two stages will most likely be enough. Others will have to put in a bit more effort:

• Choosing an anti-plagiarism system on which the check will be carried out. Text, eTXT, unik.org.ua, antiplagiat are among the most universal options. Do you have access to Antiplagiat.VUZ through friends or acquaintances? Great — you can view your mistakes through the lecturers’ eyes. The choice of service also determines how exactly the anti-plagiarism system can be outsmarted.
• Uploading the text and saving the result. Whether the result is successful or not, it is important to record it. If the percentage suits you, we still recommend saving it just in case — it will be your insurance. If not, the first version will help you stay on track while making corrections. Much here depends on how the anti-plagiarism system works.
• Editing and parallel checking. You make corrections to the paper and check it again. Sooner or later, you will achieve the desired result, although it may take quite some time.

There is another option — contact us, and we will increase the originality of your paper to the required percentage.

Stages of text uniqueness: how to trick plagiarism detection

To truly ensure high-quality text originality, you should start by following this sequence of actions:

Deep understanding of the material

Before starting the uniqueness process, it is important to truly understand the topic. If you are working with a source text or want to rework someone else’s article, first study the material carefully. Understanding the details allows you not just to rewrite words, but to interpret the information in your own way, adding your own ideas and emphasis.

Please note: it is important not just to read the material, but to study it. To do this, you should verify the theses and information presented. As a result, you may not only make the text unique, but even correct it, making it more accurate and higher quality.

Synonyms and paraphrasing

One of the basic techniques of making a text unique is the use of synonyms and changing wording. You can rearrange words in a sentence, choose new expressions, and paraphrase the meaning. The main thing is not to overdo it so that the text remains clear and natural.

Example:

• Original: “The company provides a wide range of website development services.”
• Rewritten version: “The firm offers a large set of services for creating web resources.”

There are even special services for such tasks, but the quality of their work leaves much to be desired — they do not “understand” the context and simply replace words with synonyms. Such tools can be used only for individual sentences, which then need to be carefully reworked.

Working with structure

Changing the structure helps make the text different from the original while simultaneously improving its perception. Break long paragraphs into shorter ones, change the order of information, and regroup it in a new way. This approach makes the text easier to read.

Personal or expert opinion

Adding your own experience or expert comments makes the text unique and valuable. Share your vision of the topic, provide examples, and add facts that are not present in the source. It is also useful to expand the topic by adding entire paragraphs or even sections to the text.

By using all these steps, you will get a unique text that will definitely not resemble the original, while working on it will be easier than if you were writing it from scratch.

Ambiguous methods of bypassing anti-plagiarism: how making a text original will not work

It is worth highlighting several ways to reduce the plagiarism percentage:

• Synonymizers. As mentioned above, this method works terribly, since after processing the text through a program, the material loses its meaning and turns into a set of words.
• Automatic line breaks. This method is more suitable for improving formatting. Of course, originality can be increased if you are missing just a few percent, but further refinement will still be necessary.
• Replacing letters from one alphabet with another. Recently, this method has become popular among students, but it is not effective. Why? Because checking systems easily recognize such tricks and flag them in lecturers’ reports.
• Filler words. Words like “thus,” “directly,” “obviously” are inserted throughout the text; originality slightly increases, but the quality of the paper deteriorates.

The conclusion is this: it is better not to experiment with dubious methods, because each time you risk:

• being expelled;
• being sent back for revision;
• having to write a new paper from scratch and postponing your defense for a year.

How can you bypass anti-plagiarism? How to properly check a paper for plagiarism in 2025

We want to recommend proven ways to pass an anti-plagiarism check:

1. Deep rewriting.
   With creative editing, you can increase the originality of your paper. It works like this: you read a paragraph, rethink it, and then write the same idea in your own words. The downside is that if it is a thesis containing on average 70–90 pages, it may take you several days.
2. Inserting formulas, tables, and diagrams as images rather than text.
   Some formulas are, in principle, impossible to make unique, and table headings or diagram captions often repeat. By the way, this method is also recommended by lecturers themselves. With proper layout, the paper will not suffer, and the originality percentage can easily reach 70–80%.
3. Removing tautologies, repetitions, catchphrases, templates, and clichés.
   This method increases both readability and originality. For example, why repeatedly write the full name of a law if you can simply indicate its number?
4. Creating original headings and subheadings.
   Headings are often the weak spot in plagiarism checks. Try to come up with non-standard wording that accurately conveys the essence without repeating common clichés.
5. Different presentation formats.
   The same content can be presented in different ways: as an interview, a Q&A format, tables, infographics, or even mini-stories. This not only increases text originality but also makes it more interesting and easier to read.
6. Checking originality in a reliable service.
   Good services help not only check the text but also point out where overlaps with other materials occur. Test different services, purchase paid subscriptions (or use free trial periods) to make working with the software easier.

Every year, originality-checking systems become smarter and more advanced, but students also keep inventing new tricks to pass plagiarism checks. However, one thing is certain: it is becoming increasingly difficult for students to write papers with high originality, as more and more material appears online. Therefore, one method remains reliable — writing the paper independently (from your own head) after studying the material, or writing it in your own words (by performing a rewrite).

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