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The growth of the Internet has meant that billions of web pages, books, journals and other resources are available to students in just a few clicks. Consequently, student plagiarism is now the biggest dilemma that colleges, universities and other learning institutions now face, threatening to undermine and call into disrepute the value of awards that … Read more
INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of Study ‘Plagiarism is the act of taking the writings of another person and passing them o’ as one’s own. The fraudulence is closely related to forgery and piracy-practices generally in violation of copyright laws.’ (Encyclopedia Britannica, cited in Asim, MEr Ali, HM, Dahwa, A, & Vaclav, S 2011). The word plagiarism … Read more
An ongoing debate in the academic world is whether plagiarism checkers like plagiarismchecker.net help students cheat, or whether they help students avoid genuine accidental plagiarism. What do you think? Have you ever used a plagiarism checker to help you cheat? Take part in our poll below (you’ll be able to see what other students said as … Read more
Plagiarism isn’t the same everywhere on the web… The word “plagiarism’ isn’t as hard to type as you might think. Doing some keyword research this month at plagiarismchecker.net, we thought we’d see where people tripped up. Surprisingly, there are just a small handful of typos, which include: We did a news search and found 42 … Read more
Most people will be familiar with the custom essay concept – where a student gives a company their essay question and gets an exact answer back which is written from scratch and fully referenced, ready for them to hand in or “use as a guide’, as the companies would tell you. The essays are written … Read more
An investigation carried out by GoLocalPDX into the work of Cylvia Hayes, Oregan’s first lady, has revealed that sections of the Green Jobs Growth Plan: 2011-2019 report that she produced were taken from a previously written state report. Gloria Hayes was paid tens of thousands of dollars to write the report with the purpose of … Read more
Sam Smith – know for his vocals on Disclosure’s “Latch”, Naughty Boy’s “La La La” and his own numerous releases – did well at the recent Grammys scooping up four awards that included Best New Artist and Best Pop Vocal Album. His biggest and perhaps most well known hit “Stay With Me” was a contender … Read more
What’s been happening in the world of plagiarism this December This month in the news, we find Yahoo, the publication Biosystems Engineering, WND, Maneesh Sharma’s latest film, US-Israeli author Naomi Ragen and artist Dani King Heriyanto all on the end of plagiarism charges. As if that’s not enough, Lenore Hart has been accused of lifting … Read more
Whenever I sit down to scour through the newspapers to bring you stories on plagiarism, I’m never short of things to write about. I’ve dropped about 16 stories for this edition simply because my article’s already near 2,000 words and despite the slease of these stories, I’m sure the topic of plagiarism wouldn’t keep even … Read more
From Lady Gaga to Leona Lewis, there’s a motley crew in the world of plagiarism news this week. Enjoy this round up and don’t forget, plagiarismchecker.net Plagiarism Checker offers a low cost secure way to detect and avoid plagiarism for essays, dissertations, articles, websites and much more. The Thai Press Reports (August 10) state that … Read more