Date Created

2008

Abstract

Academic dishonesty or plagiarism is a growing problem in today's digital world. Use of plagiarism detection tools can assist faculty to combat this form of academic dishonesty. In this article, a special emphasis is given to text-matching software called SafeAssignment. The advantages and disadvantages of using automated text matching software's are discussed and analyzed in detail.

Publication Title

Webology

Document Type

Article

ISSN

1735-188X

Volume

5

Issue

2

Keywords

Academic dishonesty; Plagiarism; Plagiarism detection tool; Text matching software; SafeAssignment; Safe Assign

Place of Publication

Iran

Rights Statement

Copyright is held by the author.

Digital Origin

Born digital

Publisher

University of Tehran, Department of Library and Information Science

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