Explaination of five misunderstandings of plagiarism checker tools. ... In response to this practice, plagiarism checkers tout the ability to locate plagiarism in written work. However, several ... Not only do they typically have much smaller databases, but they may also be less accurate and may not return quality reports. read more
In short, plagiarism detection tools are just machines and they can make mistakes. However, that is true with any tool as, for example, you don’t discard Microsoft Word because you can make a typo. Also, like any other tools, plagiarism checkers are useless without humans to use them intelligently, which is the biggest problem such tools have. read more
But don’t jump to conclusions and learn how plagiarism software works. In fact it does not act like dishwashers with dirty plates or car starters with cars. It means the checkers can’t detect plagiarism. Instead of it they just check some episodes, paragraphs and small sections. read more
"If there is no text, then the plagiarism detection cannot function," the paper notes. Dr Heather argues that requiring students to submit work in Microsoft Word is not a solution to the problem; students could simply convert a doctored PDF into Word. read more