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text matching

Text-matching software compares a submission with other writing and reports overlaps. A match report is a starting point for a human reader, not a verdict.

Research on this page differs in kind. An experiment passed a published text through online paraphrasing sites and reports that the originality-checking services it tried did poorly at linking the output to its source. It used part of one published text and compared two paraphrasing sites. A test of paraphrasing and translation tools on one course's essay prompt reports that paraphrasers swapped standard medical terms while translation largely kept them. A broader overview discusses causes of plagiarism and mentions software, as a discussion rather than a data study. A literature review covers work from 2009 to 2018 drawn from a single database, including anti-plagiarism software.

  1. International Journal for Educational IntegrityTool evaluation

    Using Internet based paraphrasing tools: Original work, patchwriting or facilitated plagiarism?

    Ann M. Rogerson, Grace McCarthy

    Free online paraphrasing tools can rewrite whole passages. The authors ran an experiment on part of a published text and report that online originality-checking services performed poorly at linking the rewritten output to its source.

    For teaching Matching services alone may fall short on machine-paraphrased text, going by the authors' report that they struggled in this experiment.

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  2. British Educational Research JournalCase study

    Contract cheating in UK higher education: A covert investigation of essay mills

    Dominic Medway, Stuart Roper, Leah Gillooly

    Essay mills, seen from the supply side. The authors approached five providers undercover and bought work from two, then report ten reassurance cues on the sites and inconsistent stances on misconduct.

    For teaching May help when talking with students about why essay mill offers can appeal, drawing on the reassurance cues the authors found on provider websites.

    Core reading Free to read

  3. Acta Pedagogia AsianaCommentary

    Academic Integrity in Higher Education: Understanding and Addressing Plagiarism

    Robert Mulenga, Helvi Shilongo

    Plagiarism in higher education is traced to academic pressure, shortage of time, limited knowledge of citation rules and the digital age, with prevention and software also discussed by the authors.

    For teaching A broad overview that may help when planning citation teaching, though it rests on discussion rather than reported data.

    Free to read

  4. Journal of Applied Learning & TeachingReview

    Reviewing the performance of AI detection tools in differentiating between AI-generated and human-written texts: A literature and integrative hybrid review

    Chaka Chaka

    Pulling together 17 articles from 2023 on how well AI-writing detectors told machine text from human text, the review reports the studies found every tool inconsistent and recommends adding human reviewers.

    For teaching Human review alongside any detector result is the review's recommendation, since the reviewed studies found every tool they tested inconsistent.

    Free to read

  5. DESIDOC Journal of Library & Information TechnologyReview

    Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct A Systematic Review

    Shipra Awasthi

    Plagiarism and academic misconduct literature from 2009 to 2018, gathered from 408 Scopus records, is surveyed here. The review reports plenty of published work and calls for vigilance, with libraries running training.

    Free to read

  6. International Journal for Educational IntegrityTool evaluation

    Paraphrasing tools, language translation tools and plagiarism: an exploratory study

    Felicity M. Prentice, Clare E. Kinden

    Odd synonyms for medical terms turned up in essays on one course. Running the essay prompt through free paraphrasing and translation tools, the authors report paraphrasers swapped standard terms; translation largely kept them.

    For teaching Suggests unusual wording in place of discipline terminology may be a clue worth a conversation, from one exploratory test.

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