The Plagiarism Detective
The first version of the Plagiarism DetectiveŠ was developed in 1998 for the purpose of comparing documents stored as computer text files and determine whether the one document contains strings of text that are identical to text found in the other document. It is an ideal tool for detecting plagiarism between student papers that are stored in a Windows-based computer and are saved as MS Word files.
The program will
only work if you set your security settings in MS Word at the lowest levels (go
to tools, then macro, macro again, then security). Please note that this
program will not search the internet for plagiarism. There are a number of commercial
websites that will search the internet for plagiarism:
http://www.copycatchgold.com/index.html (demo version available)
For additional details about the program please
read our paper
describing the Plagiarism Detective.
You should be aware
that there is at least one other free program that is somewhat similar to ours,
but much faster, versatile, and efficient.
We encourage you to explore it by going to Louis Bloomfield's site.
Thank you for your
interest in the Plagiarism Detective. Please feel free to contact me if you
have further questions about the program or about plagiarism.