No. I do not actively investigate cases. I leave that to the professionals. I am a writer with a background in law and human rights. I am an associate member of the American Bar Association (ABA), and a member of the American Society of Criminology (ASC).
Fair use is encouraged but if you use my work please mention that you found the information on my website. Use as credit: Defrosting Cold Cases, add the link, and use as author: Alice de Sturler. I do the same for you.
I cannot meet deadlines due to my workload. If you want me to review your book, contact me. I reserve the right to not review a book. I prefer to receive a book in paper form or printed PDFs so my eyes get less screen time. Sorry, no eBooks.
No. My guest bloggers are people I know such as professionals, victim family members, their friends etc. and they have communicated extensively with me. Note that I do not publish repeated content, be unique.
Arches are a familiar feature in old prisons. In this photograph, you see moss everywhere. To me that indicates the cold, moist areas where unsolved crime files are stored often in a dismal state with little done to properly preserve the evidence. The arch you see in the picture opens into another area that holds the same dreadful features but one thing is different: the other area has two windows. These windows are like eyes and they let me look into a different direction. I can look out but also review the case by looking in from the other side, change the angle, change the starting point, etc.
A cold case is a puzzle. However, if after decades the puzzle pieces still do not fit together then maybe it is time to think outside the box. Maybe the bits of information we had were never meant to be placed together in that order. Maybe we started the puzzle with the wrong pieces. And that is what this website does. I look at the puzzle and try to find alternative explanations for the facts in hopes to regroup the puzzle pieces to get a clearer picture.
House Tour - The Kitchen We're now going to exit the main house and enter the kitchen from the door located under the outside stairwell. Like most Victorian middle-class homes, our kitchen is located in the basement for the purpose of keeping the rest of the house free from odors and grease. The Ashton kitchen runs from the front to the back of the house and includes a scullery area. It has windows on the front wall which is extremely rare. In the lower-class homes, there are no windows but instead small outside ventilation pipes.
Copyscape is a website which scans the content on the internet and checks who is copying your blog post. Copyscape is a plagiarism checker and it was useful to check in academic circles if the school graders are not copying the content from other sources.
In 2011, Google changed the algorithm to Panda and would penalize website with duplicated content. If you had published lots of content but it was not original, you would have lost 90% of your traffic. One of the ways website were making revenue was to take articles from other websites and spin it.
Copyscape offers free and premium search. Writers, bloggers, Academic institutes can use copyscape and find out if their content has been copied or not. You can use copyscape's free version and can use the premium version later on.
You will find results which show that your posts have been copied from your blog. You might also find articles where there is a similar feature of social bookmarking websites, you can ignore these articles. Once you find out which blogs are copying content from your blog, you can report it to blogging companies and get the content removed from search.
Article spinners are regularly used by people to spin articles. A writer should look at writing unique articles which resonates with the reader. Unique content will win at the end of the day and not a copied version of some blog. If you write a poorly written blog, then people will realize this and may stop following you.
If you do not enjoy writing articles, then you can hire a writer who can ghostwrite for you and publish high-quality articles. You need to ensure that the ghostwriter writes original content. This way you can attract people to your blog and add value to your blog.
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Hi, I am Rohit from Lifeselfmastery.com and am passionate about learning new things. On my podcast, I get high-quality entrepreneurs who talk about how to build businesses, how to change your beliefs and mindset, and much more!
I evaluate this as a mean response. There are most surely satisfied client and freelance users of every major editing solution (including Grammarly) who may be many things -- but broke is not among them.
I am a big fan of the MS Word 'Read Aloud' function. Content that is read out loud provides an aural processing check. This function provides an excellent method through which I can catch those bothersome little tactical writing errors Grammarly did not catch. It is also, then, consistent humbling to see how many mistakes always exist within my first-write, unedited words-work.
I consistently compose my production content in Word, so that this facility can be engaged. When it meets the correct marks for quality, I then transfer the words to whatever venue is at hand. Other editing software packages exist. Autocrit has served me well in stylistic structuring, particularly with an eye on Flesh-Kincade grade reading level score. The point is to have the eyes then dance with intellectual pleasure, not bleed, in this regard.
The attached screen indicates how the [Read Aloud] button appears on my Word screen.
Grammarly is an online tool that runs grammatical rules and doesn't always get it right. I never run full text through it, but I will use it to spot check something. I never use it as the final word on something because there are different schools of belief, if you will, in grammar, and grammatical styles are always in flux. Grammarly won't pick up on many linguistic phrases that are unique to certain fields.
I use the Canadian Antidote, from Druide. I think it's superior to Grammarly (it doesn't check for plagiarism, though). It's very helpful, but you really need to know what you are doing and how to separate the wheat from the chaff (false positive vs real grammar errors).
My experience has been that, for plagiarism detection, Copyscape Pro (or whatever they call their pay version) is more comprehensive than Grammarly, though you can never be sure what they're not finding. And for both, you can't go blindly on the results. They'll pick up on quotations that are properly cited and common phrases.
As I've posted recently, don't rely on Grammarly for grammar checking, or really any grammar checker. The technology just isn't good enough yet, and English is too ambiguous. I can often tell when I've been handed something that's been run through Grammarly first - commas tend to be in weird places.
Fun fact: Copyscape is one of the few companies that has permission to scrape Google results. You can skip Copyscape and just copy/paste a sentence in Google. Copyscape seems to filter out results if they are not too similar, but Google will identify synonyms and return plagiarized content from people who just took paragraphs from another source and switched out words (which a lot of writers seem to do on here). That's how I found plagiarism back when I was hiring writers for a client. They would get mad at me and argue that the content was "original" because it passed copyscape. lol So I would show them the source and the paragraphs I could see were copy/pasted and then words switched out.
Copy/pasting into Google is really the best way. And lots of them will write their own first paragraph and start plagiarizing in the second or third paragraph. You'll notice it because the writing starts out pretty bad and then gets really good. You should always take a sentence from the middle of the document or at least a random location. Lots of them will take paragraphs from different sources and call it "research." A lot of "writers" do this. They're so clueless that they think this is ok because it passes copyscape.
As we are discussing plagiarism, here is an interesting tactic to use, if you wish to check and see if your personal writing may have been plagiarized.
If one were to google the website **Edited for Community Guidelines** - the first row one would read would be this:
That happens to be a John-Website and those happen to be John-Words. Notice what happens in Google search returns, when I cut-and-paste those exact words into the Google Search bar. The first organic return? The **Edited for Community Guidelines** site.
Thus, I was able to Google a substantive part of my own words-work - and had those words been used on another website - I would then (probably) have the capability to see who is using my words, and where, and why. Google clauses of unique nature is the tactic in summary.
It can makes for an interesting afternoon. PIcking out the best parts of our custom writing that is posted within major website pages. And then take a tour around the Internet to see if anyone has borrowed our words.