Viper, the plagiarism checker that's accurate, easy and free...
Why do I need to check my essay for plagiarism?
Plagiarism is defined as the use or close imitation of another author's work, which has been claimed as your own. Be warned, if your university accuses you of plagiarism, you could face losing your place or suffer reduced marks.
To avoid plagiarism, you should always reference correctly according to your institution's guidelines and use Viper. Viper is fast becoming the plagiarism checker of choice with over 10 billion resources scanned and an easy interface which highlights potential areas of plagiarism in your work. Best of all, it's free!
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My questions are...
i. why do students plagiarize?
ii. how do we as the educators or lecturers detect whether the assignments that the students send are plagiarized or not?
iii. how do we overcome the problems of plagiarising?
This software has made it even harder for us teachers/lecturers to know whether the assignments send are original or not. There are also techniques where some students cut and paste the assignments from the internet, use the Google translator, translate it to different kinds of language before reverting it back to English. By doing so, they will only need to work on the sentence structure a bit and then emerge the new authentic article/assignments!
