How to beat Copyscape in a legit way

You can't be a subconscious plagiarist. It takes conscious effort to plagiarize.

I read a lot, too. Once, just after finishing The Good Soldier (Ford Madox Ford), I wrote a piece of fiction 9 pages long. If you know the Good Soldier and that I've read it, you're going to say it influenced me (same kind of rhythm, mood, feel to it). But I don't need to run it through any scape to know it's original, has no parts of the Good Solider word-for-word.

I bet Dostoyevsky, Proust, Virginia Wolf, never considered plagiarism-free as one of the criteria to judge their work as good by; it was a given that they're not plagiarizing.

I don't know why Nesha is asked to rewrite anything. But the very request implies don't be original, steal and hide the fact that you are stealing.

I was asked to rework some content a mechanical engineer created for his peer to make it easy to consume by non-engineers. None of the ideas of the result were mine, but my piece would have passed copyscape had copyscape existed at the time. Note: this was done for the same engineer who wrote it, he was the official writer of what I wrote.

In the world of marketing, I see rewrite an article as an inexpensive attempt to bypass legality. Because I see it as some guy who says, You don't need none of that from me. Just go on this website and that website and rewrite what they have. I do the same.

And, if you're a roofer, it's quite possible you do exactly the same. Still, you are not the owner of those other websites and you could do the same differently. But even if you do the same (flat roofs only, for instance) and you do your work in the same manner, so what? The content on those sites is not yours and you should come up with your own. After all, you're in your business, you know what your business does and how it does it.

Nesha, if I were your client and you showed me a copyscape report, I'd have doubts about your work forever and ever. Because in my world, it goes without saying, that if I hire you to write me an original piece of something, it's going to be an original piece.

Do you go to the store and feel compelled to show the cashier that the $3 you're handing over for the 2lbs of bread is yours, you did not steal it? Do you show them your paycheck?

When I had some company build me a fence, it never crossed my mind to ask them for proof that the wood planks they used were theirs, legally, paid for, not stolen.

When I go to Costco, I don't ask them for proof of ownership and they never ask me to proof that the money I pay them with is not stolen.

Get the idea?

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Can you tell me how you submit the report? I have a new client asking for this but although I have a premium account, I can't see how to run a report? I can check, but that's about it?

Help gratefully accepted!

Thanks Nesha,
I'm on board with some of the things you mentioned, but if I need to provide a Grammar and Readability report to my clients then I'm definitely in the wrong job!! If it doesn't speak for itself that I know how to punctuate and that my articles read correctly, there is a big problem with me as a copywriter!!

The question, Nesha, is why is that your only client?

And, if that's your only client, shouldn't you say no and focus on positioning yourself better? It doesn't take long.

The problem with that is your only client so you say yes is that while you do that work you're not doing anything to get better work and it also bends/turns/twists things in such a way as to make it harder for you to get great clients.

If that is, indeed, your only client, make sure you set aside time to do repositioning and marketing and advertising.

You always have options.