Plagiarism checker
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Yep. We've done that. However, here's the problem. We hired this person through an agency. Therefore, it would be much better if we could go back to the agency with hard numbers - like "85% of this documentation came form the following domains". Manually checking each of the files and then performing that level of work isn't cost efficient, but not doing anything lets this person walk away with our money when he's done work that I can't give to my client. Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
Tom Archer wrote: go back to the agency with hard numbers - like "85% of this documentation came form the following domains". I really don't think the numbers are important here, Tom. If it's stolen work without proper reference then any of it should be grounds for disolving the contract. I'm not sure of the legal implications, but IMO it's bottom-line unethical. ~Nitron.
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Does anyone know of a free site where I can determine if the work given to me on a documentation effort was plagiarized from a Web site? * WCopyFind - Only compares local files * Turnitin (and a few others) requires that you pay before you can even test the app Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
What made you suspect plagiarism in the first place? Jerry He said this was like painstakingly assembling the first layer of a house of cards, then boasting that the next 15,000 layers were a mere formality.--The Code Book, pp. 331 Toasty0.com DotNetGroup.org
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Does anyone know of a free site where I can determine if the work given to me on a documentation effort was plagiarized from a Web site? * WCopyFind - Only compares local files * Turnitin (and a few others) requires that you pay before you can even test the app Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
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What made you suspect plagiarism in the first place? Jerry He said this was like painstakingly assembling the first layer of a house of cards, then boasting that the next 15,000 layers were a mere formality.--The Code Book, pp. 331 Toasty0.com DotNetGroup.org
Toasty0 wrote: What made you suspect plagiarism in the first place? He had not used a template that we provided to ensure consistency so we asked him to go back and do that. He became extremely upset arguing about how he saw that template as only a "guideline" and such. (Sure. Like we would provide 3 examples - all exactly the same format - as a "guideline") Anyway, during the course of our discussions, it became apparent that his english grammar and verbiage were not consistent with his work. That's when I googled a couple of passages and voila. Not only was the text stolen verbatim, but the format as well. (Not at least I know why he didn't use my format; he was simply copying and pasting the contents from the original site.) Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
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What about WinDiff? :-D :-D The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
That would be great if windiff would search the internet and compare only the relevant portions of the documents to our documents and produce a meaningful report that I could give a manager ;P Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
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Does anyone know of a free site where I can determine if the work given to me on a documentation effort was plagiarized from a Web site? * WCopyFind - Only compares local files * Turnitin (and a few others) requires that you pay before you can even test the app Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
It sounds like you already know the truth. If you take this to the man's employers, they'll probably either try and help him bs his way out of it (implying that they were at least complicit in this act), or take any suspicions very seriously (after all, this reflects pretty badly on them). Unless you plan on taking them to court, i don't see that you need a huge amount of evidence - one or two large bits of text should be damning enough.
Shog9
I'm not the Jack of Diamonds... I'm not the six of spades. I don't know what you thought; I'm not your astronaut...
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It sounds like you already know the truth. If you take this to the man's employers, they'll probably either try and help him bs his way out of it (implying that they were at least complicit in this act), or take any suspicions very seriously (after all, this reflects pretty badly on them). Unless you plan on taking them to court, i don't see that you need a huge amount of evidence - one or two large bits of text should be damning enough.
Shog9
I'm not the Jack of Diamonds... I'm not the six of spades. I don't know what you thought; I'm not your astronaut...
Probably, but I've always been a fan of "overwhelming firepower". Go in with much more than you need just to be safe. Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
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Probably, but I've always been a fan of "overwhelming firepower". Go in with much more than you need just to be safe. Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
It strikes me that this might be an interesting project to use one of the search APIs... What kind of duplication are we talking about here? Straight copy-pasting of large blocks of text? Or is there significant paraphrasing / large amounts of text transitioning between plagiarised blocks?
Shog9
I'm not the Jack of Diamonds... I'm not the six of spades. I don't know what you thought; I'm not your astronaut...
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Does anyone know of a free site where I can determine if the work given to me on a documentation effort was plagiarized from a Web site? * WCopyFind - Only compares local files * Turnitin (and a few others) requires that you pay before you can even test the app Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
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It strikes me that this might be an interesting project to use one of the search APIs... What kind of duplication are we talking about here? Straight copy-pasting of large blocks of text? Or is there significant paraphrasing / large amounts of text transitioning between plagiarised blocks?
Shog9
I'm not the Jack of Diamonds... I'm not the six of spades. I don't know what you thought; I'm not your astronaut...
I agree. The Google API isn't that hard to write for and if you've got a list of docs, you can pretty much just run a google search on each one of them. If the exact phrase shows up anywhere on the web, then you've got a plagiarised page.
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It strikes me that this might be an interesting project to use one of the search APIs... What kind of duplication are we talking about here? Straight copy-pasting of large blocks of text? Or is there significant paraphrasing / large amounts of text transitioning between plagiarised blocks?
Shog9
I'm not the Jack of Diamonds... I'm not the six of spades. I don't know what you thought; I'm not your astronaut...
Thanks for the links. It's pretty much copy/paste Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant
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Absolutely what I needed. Thanks! Cheers, Tom Archer - Archer Consulting Group Programmer Trainer and Mentor and Project Management Consultant