A comprehensive collection of articles on plagiarism, covering key topics such as plagiarism prevention, academic integrity, high-profile plagiarism cases, legal issues, and practical tips for students and educators. Whether you’re a student aiming to improve your academic writing skills or an educator looking for resources, you’ll find valuable insights below. Scroll down to browse our latest articles.
Summary: An AI detector may perform well on English essays yet struggle with Ukrainian academic writing, Arabic news articles or a document that moves between two languages. The difficulty is not simply recognising different words. Detectors must distinguish human and machine writing across different linguistic structures, writing conventions, subject areas and generation systems – often … Read more
Summary: Plagiarism checking used to be comparatively straightforward. Take a piece of text, break it into words or phrases, search a large collection of documents for matching strings, and report the similarities. That approach still works extremely well for one important kind of plagiarism: direct copying. The problem is that copying does not always look … Read more
Summary: Changing the language of a passage can remove nearly every word-level resemblance to its source without changing the underlying argument, explanation or findings. That creates a particular challenge for plagiarism checking: how can software recognise borrowed material when the original and the submitted text use different vocabularies, grammatical structures or writing systems? Cross-language plagiarism … Read more
It’s getting to that point in the academic year when assignments start piling up – so we’ve been busy too. We’ve added new PlagPointer features, improved the checker and made the site much easier to use, ready for the busy months ahead. Here’s what we’ve been up to in no particular order: If you haven’t … Read more
Summary: Almost everyone believes they can spot AI writing. The em dashes. The “it’s worth noting.” The suspiciously balanced conclusion that begins “In conclusion.” The research says otherwise. Across more than half a dozen controlled studies summarised in a 2025 Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research survey by Fraser, Dawkins and Kiritchenko of the National Research … Read more
Discusses how to use AI essay writers such as Uniwriter effectively as learning tools, backed by top university AI policies and education research.
Summary: There’s a persistent misunderstanding that circulates through classrooms, content marketing teams and online forums alike: the idea that if a work carries a Creative Commons licence, it can be used without attribution 0 and that doing so carries no consequences. It’s an appealing notion, but it’s wrong on both legal and ethical grounds. In … Read more
Summary: Plagiarism detection is a critical component of academic integrity and intellectual property protection. Traditional plagiarism detection systems rely on text-matching algorithms. These tools find identical or highly similar passages between a submitted work and existing sources. However, these methods can fail to detect more subtle forms of plagiarism, such as paraphrasing, ghostwriting, or contract … Read more
Today’s guest post is courtesy of Emma, a lecturer who spends too much of her time marking, advising, and trying to keep pace with changing academic rules. Lately, she’s been struck by a curious contradiction: students may openly acknowledge using ChatGPT in their assignments, but the very same universities come down hard on anyone who … Read more
Summary: Plagiarism detection has evolved into a multifaceted research area at the intersection of text analysis, information retrieval, and natural language processing. The challenge stems from the diverse ways in which plagiarists disguise copied content – ranging from verbatim copy-paste to subtle paraphrasing, structural reordering of text, cross-language translation, or even idea plagiarism that copies … Read more