Can anyone just copy a 'project' and submit?
Today, mostly digital submission is advised. We have lot of digital tools to find cheating and plagiarized articles.
Each person has their own unique vocabulary. It may be rich or limited. Some people write in short sentences, some others prefer long sentences having many clauses. Even different people use punctuation marks differently, that means, everybody has unique style of writing. The style of writing can be analyzed digitally, and cheating can be exposed.
Some people use some phrases often. Examples: one of the most, let us assume, ripple of laughter ran around the table. I found myself shaking hands with .... etc. A digital tool called 'fingerprint' finds percentage of such phrases appearing in a passage and match it with percentage of other authors. Thereby, it detects plagiarism.
There is another statistical tool called 'stylometry'. It matches the writing styles of authors. For example, a student's exam answer script and assignment script can be cross matched and verified by stylometry. Suppose a student use 50 words often. The frequency of that 50 words appearing in each chunk of the document can be calculated and cross-matched. Hence cheating and copying can also be detected in this way.
Online plagiarism checker is available. You can insert any piece of text and check for cheating. The grammarly.com website says that it compares the inserted text to over 16 million web pages and academic papers stored in ProQuest's databases.
Our writing has DNA which can be extracted by software. Hence, the original author can easily be found.
Who wrote the quote?
"If you prick us, do we not bleed?
If you tickle us, do we not laugh?
If you poison us, do we not die?
And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”
No one can imitate Shakespeare.
Rich vocabulary may be associated with high literary quality, that is not always the case. Ernest Hemingway used a small number of words and won the Noble prize for literature in 1954.
Be simple, be original, Be a winner.
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