Instructions

This is a useful tool to see which of the original words still exist in your paraphrased paragraph. Remember that having only a few small words in common does not necessarily mean that your paragraph is not plagiarized because your sentence structure should also be different. However, if your paragraph has many words from the original, it is probably plagiarized.

Original Paragraph:

Your paraphrase paragraph using your own words:

Now see if you used any overlapping language:

Two different ways of looking at the differences (color-coded):

And a plain-text look:

The original version of this page was written by Chu Alan, working off a Javascript writen by John Resig, using an algorithm for finding the difference between two strings.  The original version is at http://appsrv.cse.cuhk.edu.hk/~achu3/hdiff/. See this comment to trace the origins of this code.This particular version has been adapted from http://www.coedu.usf.edu/%7Edorn/testdiff.html to test the paraphrase of a particular text.