Mehr Schaden als Nutzen? Problematischer Einsatz von Textvergleichsprogrammen zur vermeintlichen Plagiatsvermeidung

The number of so called plagiarism detection software is ever-growing, though hardly any of those products are really useful as marketed. since their producers force-fed the term plagiarism detection – in stark contrast to the only function they have, which is text matching – to their customers, several misconceptions have established, which keep circulating within higher education institutions rather persistently, thus even hindering the establishment of efficient prevention strategies within. By all means are those products not sufficient enough as sole preventing method against plagiarism and will never be technically mature enough to find all forms of scientifically unethical writing.

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