Editor's review
Plagiarism is quite rampant nowadays in a wide variety of ways that applies to varied industry verticals that can be defined as the wrongful appropriation or close imitation of someone else’s work, ideas or expressions and presenting them as original work. Although plagiarism has existed in our society since as early as 18 century, the legality and criticality of this term has come under the scanner bit later when intellectual property rights and patent laws came into existence. Fields like academia and journalism contains much grave elements of plagiarism that also constitute being dishonest and can ruin anybody’s career. Numerous computer programs have been developed to check any copying from documents and articles that help in avoiding any manual checking and AntiPlagiarist 1.7 is one of them that quickly works to compare and check documents for any copying.
AntiPlagiarist opens with a neatly arranged interface with the main options placed at the top pane and the rest of the options to compare documents placed at the main screen as differentiated to compare and analyze to separate files for any copying. It displays the findings in a convenient format that can be HTML, plain text or other Word formats like MS Word and Word Perfect. This program can help teachers also to check the student’s assignments whether any copying or lifting has been done from fellow students or simply from the web and enhance their writing skills in the process. The native Intel code makes it simple and fast to work and report-customization options are also available to enhance the performance of this application. Furthermore, the reports can be sorted by the total size of similar fragments making the comparison even simpler.
To conclude, AntiPlagiarist 1.7 definitely can be effectually used in the content and journalism industry to avoid any lifting or copying charges and hence scores a rating of 3.5 for its user friendly application.
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