Free Internet based paraphrasing tools: further threats to academic integrity – SpringerOpen blog
Paraphrasing tools, or article “spinners”, are free Internet sites which use computer programs to change writing so it looks different to the original text. While it may look different to the source material, using the output from an online tool can be considered a form of plagiarism or cheating as it is not an individual’s work but the work of a machine. This study, published in the International Journal for Educational Integrity, shows that the machine outputs are of poor quality, cannot be trusted and there are ways of detecting their use.See it on Scoop.it, via Viruses and Bioinformatics from Virology.uvic.ca
Free Internet based paraphrasing tools: further threats to academic integrity – SpringerOpen blog
Source: Viral Bioinformatics
