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Plagiarism Articles
Articles covering a range of topics on plagiarism, including famous plagiarism cases, plagiarism in the news and topics to help students.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Ask the Doctor
Guides prepared by a lecturer from one of the UK’s leading universities who has taught undergraduates, postgraduates, GCSE and A level students for 30+ years.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Lesson Plans
Lesson plans for KS3, college and university students to help teachers tackle the subject of plagiarism.
Plagiarism lesson plan (KS3)
Free plagiarism lesson plan for use with KS3 children NB: For college/university, there are different resources available here. Year: KS3 Literacy | Topic: Plagiarism Learning Objective: Identifying correctly…
Plagiarism lesson plan and worksheet (college)
Plagiarism Powerpoint Presentation You can download the powerpoint presentation by clicking this link. You can access the worksheet here (including Word/PDF downloads) NB: For KS3, there is a different version…
Plagiarism worksheet for college and university level students
Download in WORD format | Download as PDF Plagiarism Worksheet for College and University Level Students Learning Objective: Identifying correctly and incorrectly cited information; identifying…
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Reviews
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Types of Plagiarism
Plagiarism vs. détournement
Find out about the difference between plagiarism and détournement The concept of détournement has been part of our culture for almost 100 years, having its roots in the Dada art…
Plagiarism vs homage
Find out about the differences between plagiarism and homage They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This then begs the question of when does flattery cross the…
Plagiarism vs. parody
Find out the differences between plagiarism and parody The dangers of plagiarism are some of the most important lessons that media creators can ever learn. As defined by Merriam Webster,…