Software

Tools
Prof. (Dr.) Chetan B. Bhatt
Principal
Government MCA College,
Maninagar, Ahmedabad
• Plagiarism Detection
• Turnitin
• Urkund
• Bibliography Management Tools
• EndNote
• JABREF
• MENDELY
• ZOTERO
• Writing Support
• Grammerly
• Ginger
• Word Editing
• Open Office, Latex
Plagiarism detection
Presentation Outline

• Plagiarism
• What it is
• How to avoid it
• How to find it
• Citation Methods
• Writing style
• Methods for citing various sourses

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Plagiarism

• Plagiarism (pley–juh–riz-uh’m or pley-jee-uh-riz)

• Word root is “Plagiar(y)”
• 1590 – 1600; from Latin “plagiarius i.e. kidnapper”
• Plagiarism is the attempt to pass off other peoples’ work (ideas,
words, phrases, or passages) as your owns.

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Types of plagiarism

• Four kind of plagiarism are identified as below:

• Direct plagiarism: Verbatim lifting of passages without enclosing the
borrowed material in quotation marks and crediting the original author.
• Mosaic: Borrowing the ideas and opinions from the original source and
a few verbatim words or phrases without crediting the original author.
In this case, the plagiarist intertwines his or her own ideas and opinions
with those of the original author, creating a “confused, plagiarized
mass”.
• Paraphrase: Restating a phrase or passage, providing the same
meaning but in a different form without attribution to the original
author.
• Insufficient acknowledgement: Noting the original source of only part
of what is borrowed or failing to cite the source material in such a way
that a reader will know what is original and what is borrowed.”
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WHY IS PLAGIARISM A PROBLEM FOR ACADEMIA?

• LEGAL PROBLEM • ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Plagiarism is consequently a legal problem. Academia is built on the tradition of intellectual
honesty. Plagiarism risks breaking this trust and
poses a basic threat to academic integrity and
lowers the perception of quality of any
institution allowing it.
• KNOWLEDGE
The fact that cheating occurs is a direct threat
to the quality of education and research. • WORKING ENVIRONMENT
Plagiarism hinders innovation and the progress It is an unpleasant task for a teacher to
of creating NEW knowledge. confront a student with suspicions of
plagiarism, especially if the teacher does not
have access to the original source material.
How to avoid plagiarism

• Even if your words are original, your work can still be plagiarism if your
ideas and information are not, and are not cited
• Cite the ideas, words, phrases, or passages taken from others’ work
properly in your report, research paper, and thesis. (use appropriate
writing style)
• The words/phrases are taken verbatim in your writing then Include them in
quotations and cite the source also.
• Rewrite
• Plan your time
• Always note the source (use bibliography management tool)
• Check plagiarism using tool

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Tools to check Plagiarism

• Turnitin
• iThenticate
• Urkund
• DirllBit
• DrillBit has been selected for empanelment with AICTE NEAT 3.0 (National
Educational Alliance for Technology) and by INFLIBNET Centre for all the
Indian Universities under the aegis of Ministry of Education, Govt. of India.
• Viper
• PlagScan

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How DrillBit works?

• URKUND never determines what a plagiarism is, but DrillBit compares textual
similarity and subject similarity.
• The reports generated by DrillBit to your teachers consist, in the event of its
finding similarities, of a text comparison.
• DrillBit marks your document that are similar to other sources, in DrillBit's
archives, on the Internet and in published material, and give the teacher access to
the original material where DrillBit have found the similarity.
HOW IT WORKS?
A document’s journey in DrillBit

Student
Institute
Journals material
Repository
and THE RESULT
Publishers FINDINGS Once the process is
When a document starts to finished, an analysis
display similarities to other overview is created and
Internet sent to the teacher. This is
sources, a matching profile
THE ANALYSIS is formed. done either via the used
The text is analysed and we LMS or by email. The
begin to check for possible results are presented in a
text similarity across our three comprehensible,
direct interactive analysis report
source areas.
LMS upload so that the teacher can
make the final judgement
if any plagiarism has
indeed occurred.
STUDENT SUBMISSION
The DrillBit process starts when a student
submits a document to the system.
Independently of language, the text is
extracted from the document and the
processing begins.
What file formats are supported by DrillBit?

• DrillBit supports the following file formats

• .doc, .docx,
• .sxw (staroffice writer program),
• .pptx,
• .pdf,
• .txt, .rtf,
• .xlsx
• .tiff
• .odt (Apache OpenOffice, LibreOffice file created by word processing application)
Other features

• it covers all the major premium Publisher content in plagiarism

search.
• Each document of 800 pages and 100MB file size is supported
• urrently DrillBit supports 100+ languages,
• DrillBit supports plagiarism check in regional languages.
Kannada, Hindi, Urdu, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Punjabi, Bengali,
Marathi, Assamese, Gujarati, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Santhali, Manipuri,
Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali (No restriction of fonts, must be Unicode)
Other features

• DrillBit will not save

any files to the
repository. Users can
check the same files
many times, but it
will not be saved in
the Repository.
However, at the time
of submission option
is available to save in
repository.
Other features

• Resubmission is allowed if set by instructor

• Drillbit has integrated grammar tool and it generates a Grammar
report as well as a plagiarism report in a single click.
Analysis, Result, and Report

• Similarity of document
• DrillBit shows “Doc:Error” instead of plagiarism % for
manipulating papers or texts using a variety of tricks to avoid
plagiarism %. Authors/Students should remove tricks and submit
a paper for plagiarism check.
Analysis, Result, and Report

• How to exclude sources or similarity % ?

• Select “option To Exclude/Include Sources” - “Yes” while creating a folder
Click on the similarity % to view analysis or result page On the analysis
page, sources are listed with similarity %, click on the “Exclude >” button to
remove any source. The source will be excluded in a fraction of secs.
• How can one get a digital receipt or Certificate of Plagiarism
Check?
• Click on similarity % to view analysis or the result page On the analysis
page, Top right-side menu clicks on the “Digital Receipt” Fill the fields
which are editable and print certificate of plagiarism check
Analysis, Result, and Report

• Can one exclude References/Bibliography and Quoted Works?

• Yes, select “Exclude Reference / Bibliography” & “Exclude Quotes” - “Yes”
while creating a folder. Software will
• How much percentage of quoted works and
references/bibliography allowed?
• <15% of quoted works and no limit on references/bibliography content.
• What did the colour signify green, grey, pink, red in plagiarism
report?
• The similar texts are highlighted in colors for easy identification and
rewriting. Each color signifies the source and text are in the same color.
• Words highlighted with yellow means that they have been substituted and
red means they have been removed.
Issues in on-line era

• Wikipedia is the number one source of matched content in

students’ paper. (not research just search)
• Immediacy takes precedence over quality in online research
• Misconception about work in public domain

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Writing Style

• There are various writing style for writing report, thesis, research
papers. Below are the most common writing styles –
• Turabian (5th edition; an adaptation of the Chicago Manual of Style [CMS]),
• MLA (Modern Language Association)
• APA (American Psychological Association), and
• LSA (Linguistic Society of America).

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Bibliography Management
Tools
Bibliography Management Tools

• Mendely
• JABREF
• Zotero
RSS Feed Readers
RSS Feed Reader

• RSS (RDF Site Summary or Really Simple Syndicate) is a web feed

that allows users and applications to access updates to websites in
a standardized, computer readable format
• , Atom, and xml reader
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_feed_aggregators
Where to find RSS Feed of a website

• Add /feed/ to the end of the website url e.g. dr-chetan-

bhatt.blogspot.com/feed/ (Note: many feed reader can directly
get from root url) or sometime add /rss/
• Find via website source code
RSS Feed Reader

• G2reader (online)
• Feedly (online, Android, iOS)
• Pulse (online, Android, iOS)
• gReader (Android)
• CommaFeed (online) (commafeed.com)
• FeedReader (online) (feedreader.com)

And many such aggregators are available with various features

ChatGPT and Other Tools