Instructions:

This is a useful tool to see which of the original words still exist in your paraphrased paragraph. Remember that having few 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 Paraphrased Paragraph:

This colour coded paragraph shows you the similar words in each paragraph:

Plain-text view:

This view shows you the differences and similarities between the original and paraphrased paragraphs. Underlined words are new, crossed out words are in the original but not the new paragraph, other words are in both paragraphs.

Credit: 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. 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.