Programme

Abstract

Plagiarism is a problem.

Most of the existing literature on plagiarism focuses on detecting plagiarism within a body of work when two submissions are suspiciously similar. There are a number of tools that do this, and some of these work very well.

Obviously, these tools will not detect anything untoward if the offending work comes from outside the collection of work being assessed.

It is now easy to obtain small bespoke programs using one of several web sites. This study sets out to examine how these sites work, and to determine how easy it is to present this work for assessment while escaping detection.