The studies reviewed above shows that most of the studies are related to the
anti-plagiarism software. But no study has been conducted so far to assess the extent of plagiarism in PhD theses.
The Asian Institute of Management now runs major student-written assignments through
anti-plagiarism software.
Plagiarism faces zero tolerance and every research paper, thesis and dissertation is scrutinized by
anti-plagiarism software before submission.
We want our students to understand the ways that their professors across the curriculum are likely to see any unacknowledged borrowings and to have some familiarity with the increasingly popular
anti-plagiarism software that will be used in many of their courses.
They discuss critical design; tools like wikis, games,
anti-plagiarism software, e-portfolios, and Web 2.0 technologies; and perspectives on the use of screencasts, e-learning technologies in information literacy, e-mentors, online support for writing skills, and other areas.
Like Scott, Townsend employs
anti-plagiarism software to try to help students avert cheating before he has to catch them.
As the scientific world prepares to mark bicentenary of the author of 'On the Origin of Species', a group of critics has commissioned computer experts with specialized
anti-plagiarism software to scour Darwin's book, published in 1859, for similarities to a paper released the year before by Alfred Russel Wallace, a naturalist who worked for eight years in modern Indonesia.
Barack probably could have avoided all this fuss if he had just made a habit of running his speeches through some of the
anti-plagiarism software that high school teachers use to make sure their students are not cutting and pasting ideas into their term papers.
Universities have severe penalties for those students caught cheating, with many institutions already using advanced
anti-plagiarism software to make sure that this is enforced."
Among his useful ideas are better training in interviewing and note-taking; accuracy checklists and a 10-minute fact-checking period before reporters turn in copy; greater use of
anti-plagiarism software; increased post-publication surveys of sources to monitor accuracy; and random fact-checking of one story from each section of every issue.
The method described in the study could be used by theses advisors and other faculty as an alternative to
anti-plagiarism software packages.