Tutorial Series, MSc in SEEM/ECLT, 1st term, 2016-2017

VeriGuide（维诚）

Tutor: Pan Hong

Date: Sep 9, 2016

Tutorial Series, MSc in SEEM/ECLT, 1st term, 2016-2017

Introduction

What is VeriGuide? VeriGuide is a text similarity detection system designed for

preventing plagiarism, and for promoting and upholding academic honesty in the academic community.

Why should I use VeriGuide? Since the boom of Internet and personal computer, plagiarism

through digital channels have become easier. However, plagiarism is a misconduct and may lead to negative impact (e.g. reputation, monetary, etc) to your affiliations.

How does VeriGuide work? Submitted documents by students are compared among one

another, with past submissions, with other documents in the central database, and with the Internet.

Output from the system is an originality report highlighting suspected plagiarized contents, and giving detailed analytic and statistical data.

Tutorial Series, MSc in SEEM/ECLT, 1st term, 2016-2017

Overview

Product Website

http://www.veriguide.org Originality

Readability

Accessibility

Services VeriGuide Academic

Veriguide Basic

Partners Databases

Organization served

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Feathers

Promote and uphold academic honesty, integrity, and quality Prevent plagiarism and provide plagiarism detection services to

educators Support electronic submissions of various file formats such as Microsoft Office,

OpenOffice, Adobe PDF, Web Pages HTLM, Zip archive, etc Support the text similarity detection of both Traditional Chinese and

Simplified Chinese in additional to English Generate originality report which combines of similarity and readability

statistics, block-based charts, side-by-side comparison, etc Display submitted content and the original content in side-by-side with suspected

plagiarized content highlighted Provide readability feature in both English and Traditional Chinese shows the level

of complexity of the essay for assessment

Provide web-based application that can be accessed anywhere and anytime over the internet

Act as an assignment collection system and maintain assignment databases for institutions

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Plagiarism

Definition In the 1995 Random House Compact Unabridged

Dictionary, is the "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work."

Types Copy-and-paste 复制和粘贴

Paraphrasing 意译

Multiple Sources 多源抄袭

Copy Past Submissions 抄袭过去的功课

Sources Not Cited 没有引用来源

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Citation

「誠者，天之道也；思誠者，人之道也。」

《孟子·離婁上》第十二章

「天行健，君子以自強不息；地勢坤，君子以厚德載物。」

《易經》《周易》

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

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Originality Report

Submission Overview Checking parameters

Similarity statistics

Individual Report List of sources

Similarity statistics

Readability statistics

Side-by-side comparison

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Checking Parameters

Matching scope By default: against the Internet and within the

submission batch

Leniency Standard: the smaller number, the stricter

By default: 70%

Minimum sentence length Removing non-useful words

Sentences with number of words less that this value will be omitted

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Overall Similarity Statistics Similarity percentage

Number of suspected sentences out of the overall number in one submission Color alert

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List of Sources

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Block-based Similarity Chart

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Readability Statistics

Academic Grade Level

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Side-by-Side Comparison

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System Specification

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Academic Honesty

The Chinese University of Hong Kong places very high importance on honesty in academic work submitted by students, and adopts a policy of zero tolerance on cheating in examinations and plagiarism. Any related offence will lead to disciplinary action including termination of studies at the University

Honesty in Academic Work: A Guide for Students and Teachers http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty

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Section 2

Proper use of source material

Three elements

Quotation marks

A reference to the original source

A bibliography, giving the list of references

Self-plagiarism

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Section 3

Citation styles

1. Numbered references

2. Harvard style

3. Citation in the text

4. Information for each discipline

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Thanks!