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Authorship Is Continuous: Detecting Plagiarism In Student Code Assignments With Version Control, Ian Mathias Koss

Theses and Dissertations

In academia, the conflict between plagiarist and instructor is reaching a crescendo. The increasing availability of source material available from the Internet, either for free or for hire, is met by the increasing sophistication of tools that help with the detection of these activities. These plagiarism detection tools work by comparing sets of documents to identify similar passages of text, but this approach has some inherent limitations. Chief among these is the single source problem. If a student hires someone to write a term paper for him or her, clearly plagiarism has taken place. However, there is no second copy …