Differential Weight Based Hybrid Approach to Detect Software Plagiarism

Shah, Nrupesh; Modha, Sandip; Dave, Dhruv

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-0135-2_62

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“…Prevention initiatives have been carried out as proposed by Sagoro (2013), to improve the institutional elements and to integrate/synergize the supervision of the institution/campus, faculty and academic staff, but it was not specified on how the technical implementation will be done. Sagoro (2013), Jia, Liu, Zhang, and Liu (2012), Soori, Prilepok, Platos, and Snášel (2015), and Shah, Modha, and Dave (2016) are more propose on plagiarism prevention by one way, in which lectures/college check the students' assignment directly. There has been no innovation by involving students in active and participatory.…”

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“…It becomes another issue to synergize prevention efforts while all the parties have not had the same understanding. Furthermore, the anti-plagiarism software proposed by Jia et al (2012), Soori et al (2015), and Shah et al (2016), is concern on scanning the similarity of words and phrasing from one source to other sources. Certainly, it will not be detected when the source is cited have different languages.…”

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Investigating Plagiarism: The Form and The Motivation in Performing Plagiarism in High Education

2017

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The rapid development of information technology, especially the Internet is pointed out to be factor driving the student to practice plagiarism. Prevention efforts continue to be made both from government policies and stakeholder by creating software anti-plagiarism. However, in the reality the practice of plagiarism remains common and relatively more widespread. This practice continues to be varied, so that we need to update the information and findings through investigations plagiarism practices in student assignments. The method used was a mixed-method approach or mix of quantitative and qualitative approaches. A quantitative approach was done by using software turnitin.com to scan for plagiarism indication of the level of student assignment in common. To study the behavior of plagiarism, the interview process was also done informally to students who commit high plagiarism. The results showed that the pattern of students' plagiarism consists of five forms: sham paraphrasing, illicit paraphrasing, other plagiarism, copying verbatim and purloining. Illicit paraphrasing practices are a form of copy-paste literature review and did not pay attention to the bibliography. Besides, the practice of plagiarism is closely associated with low academic writing knowledge. Therefore, the practice of plagiarism should not only be viewed from the perspective of the academic violations, but also from the other perspectives.

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