Prevention of Textual Plagiarism Application

This project is mainly about detecting and preventing plagiarism among UTP
students. In order to achieve this, a system which named as Prevention of Textual
Plagiarism Application will be developed which provides the capability to detect
similarities between documents submitted by students. Thus, the main focus of this
project is to perform a study on how to detect textual plagiarism. Word -for- word
plagiarism is the most noticeable and serious form of plagiarism. This form of
plagiarism can be categorized as a form of direct stealing without proper
acknowledgment and consent of another's work. Rabin - Karp Algorithm which is a
string searching algorithm that uses hashing to compare the strings will be integrated
in this project as well. Some fact findings have also been carried out in order to
perform the study on plagiarism. As a result, this project is able to compare against
each of the files submitted by students in order to find for the similarities among
them. The percentage of similarities will then be generated in a text format as the
way to ease the lecturers for detecting plagiarism activities among students