Plagiarism detection software from vendors such as Turnitin is often criticized for labeling clumsy student writing as plagiarism. Now a set of new tests suggests the software lets too many students ...

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says all research proposals by lecturers and other scholars will be subjected to an anti-plagiarism test before attracting the funding of the agency.

So, how well does plagiarism detection software work? We created a phony opinion piece about steroids, and then ran it through software from plagiarism-detection company iParadigms LLC, which compares ...

The management of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund has raised the alarm over the submission of already published books as academic manuscripts to the fund for sponsorship. In a statement addressed to ...

In the wake of a second incident of plagiarism in less than three months, the editorial leadership at the Journal Register Company’s Connecticut papers looked for a way to send a message about the ...

As another academic semester comes to a close, I was both struck and disappointed to see how many students ended up failing their final paper assignments due to plagiarism. In commiserating with ...