* - the number of requests sent per second
is determined by the internet connection speed.
2. What kind of solution Plagiarism
Detector? What problems does
it solve?
Plagiarism Detector
is a groundbreaking digital copy-paste killer. Its main
task and purpose is automated detection of digital plagiarism
that originated from the world wide web. It was designed
to use the biggest digital publicly open database in the
world - that is Google. As it is mentioned on the home page
of our site - every day the amount of information is growing
- thousands of terabytes, even more... The internet is the
global source of information and its informational power
is so obvious that it does not require to be proved. Unfortunately,
like any powerful thing, the information over the web has
its darker side as well. But it is not less powerful in
any manner!
Many people know this obvious truth, even children, that
are often much more technologically smart than adults. The
reason for this is not the problematic side - psychology
gives definite answers to this issue. But the problem reveals
itself when a person facing the alternative of information
production - writing an essay, creating a report, writing
a thesis, creating an article etc. has to choose between
the two ways to follow:
- Create their own truly creative work.
- Use available sources in the internet. Copy from one
source, and call it his "own" work.
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I have been working as a
teacher, for many years and I was constantly facing
the same problem year after year - lots of students
papers. Working as a teacher reading students' essays
you may find yourself thinking: "Oh, I've seen
this somewhere... In some book I guess... But where?"
The most unpleasant thing for me under such conditions
was that I couldn't’t tell a student that this
passage does not belong to him - I had nothing to
put forward except for my own suspicions. This situation
got worse when I was working in a correspondence school
- the number of "creative" essays doubled!
And the whole amount of work to be done - checking
the students' papers for hours and understanding perfectly
well that their internet origin is absolutely clear
made me think about this problem again and again.
The first obvious solution
I've found in the Internet was to perform "Google
testing" - that is to submit several sentences
to this Internet search engine and get the results!
This was a solution! It had produced effective results
- I have detected that 3-4 papers out of 30 were internet
based. But the process of manually submitting the
papers can really make you crazy! Imagine that you
have 4 groups of students about 25-40 people each!
The idea to automate "Google
test" came to my mind several months later. The
whole year I had been working with my colleagues on
the project under the codename Plagiarism
Detector. And
here is the result - you may automatically submit
unlimited number of electronic documents to the application
and in several minutes get the same number of most
detailed reports!
The power that makes the Internet
the best place to harvest information is data automation.
The same weapon to effectively fight this automatically
compiled information is to use the same degree of
automation for its detection! That is automating "Google
test" makes academic copy-paste absolutely useless.
The last thing I would like
to say - just try it!
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Senior teacher of Mainstream English,
the project leading programmer
George A. Palkovskii
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3. Development History.
There exist several plagiarism detectors over the web -
one of the biggest being "Turn
it in". "Turn it in" is the
biggest company on the market - but recently our University
rejected its service - due to the legal issues that become
visible.
"Turn it in" has
being sued in legal court for students' Copyright
Violations - for more details see:
- www.washingtonpost.com
- McLean Students Sue Anti-Cheating Service
- IT:
Instructional Technology - Turnitin Sued
- www.scottfeldstein.net
blog - Turnitin Sued for Copyright Infringement
- Anti-plagiarism
Site Turnitin Sued For Copyright Violation
- High
schoolers turn in plagiarism screeners for copyright infringement
- Google
search on the problem
Our University faced a necessity of an alternative, legally
correct, tolerant solution.
The critical issues that brought "Turn
it in" to scandal are pretty obvious:
- Turnitin violates student privacy and intellectual
property rights, especially when archiving student papers
without students' knowledge or permission;
- Turnitin profits from students' work without paying
royalties;
- Turnitin creates an adversarial relationship between
teachers and students because it fosters an atmosphere
of distrust and renders students "guilty-until-proven-innocent";
- Turnitin distributes copies of students' papers to
third parties, which destroys the future marketability
of students' intellectual property.
Criticism source: http://en.wikipedia.org
We decided to create a product that will overcome all the
above points. And Plagiarism
Detector IS THE SOLUTION!
Using Plagiarism Detector
you will never face any of the above mentioned problems
because:
- There is no STUDENTS'
WORKS DATABASE. Students' works are verified only against
the on-line publicly accessible sources.
- By the product's nature
our company does not gain ANY profit from students' works.
- Our application does not
provide any automated grade, defining the GUILT of a student.
The grading responsibility is separated from the application.
- By its nature, the application
does not distribute the verified material to 3rd parties.
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