The Plagiarism Checker is your built-in originality guide, scanning your writing against vast databases, academic papers, websites, and published works to identify unintentional similarities and ensure your work is truly your own. It also highlights potential risks and helps you add proper citations before submission.
Availability
The Plagiarism Checker agent is available for Pro and Plus subscribers in docs and Superhuman Go.
Plagiarism Checker agent is accessible in docs. When docs is enabled, agents are on by default. Admins can adjust agent access for team members on the Agent access page.
How to use
To check your text for plagiarism with the Plagiarism Checker agent, click its icon on the right-side panel with your agents:
The Plagiarism Checker will indicate which parts of your document match external sources by showing bars on the left side of your text:
If you’re a Grammarly Enterprise, Grammarly Business, or Grammarly for Education user, you can check your text for plagiarism by opening any document in docs and clicking Check for AI text & plagiarism in the upper-right corner:
Citation style
When your text is checked for plagiarism, Grammarly will suggest citation data to create a reference in accordance with any of these three standard formats:
- Modern Language Association (MLA)
- American Psychological Association (APA)
- The Chicago Manual of Style
Simply click the corresponding link on a suggestion card or in the Citation style window, depending on the product offering you’re using. You can copy the reference or citation, and you can view an online resource that will provide general models for citing your text.
You can also check whether your text may be flagged as AI-generated. You can learn more in this article: AI Detector user guide.