FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS

IMPACT OF COMPUTERS ON WORK ENVIRONMENTS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following are ways technology has affected plagiarism? Select two answers.
A
Copying information verbatim is much easier since it can be done using cut-and-paste commands.
B
It is easier to plagiarize out of sloth since computers cannot expedite the process of citation.
C
It is easier to detect plagiarism through the use of services that automatically check text against the web.
D
Copying information verbatim is much harder due to the use of web scripts that prevent the copying of website material.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The internet has made plagiarism quicker and easier; a student simply needs to click the mouse to copy and paste sections of text. The author is interested in the process of academic writing and how, if the text is constructed by a couple of clicks, learning may be limited.

Detailed explanation-2: -Direct plagiarism is similar to complete plagiarism in that it, too, is the overt passing-off of another writer’s words as your own. The difference between the two is how much of the paper is plagiarized. With complete plagiarism, it’s the entire paper.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fingerprinting, String matching, Bag of words, citation analysis and Stylometry are the different kinds of detection. The working of all the types is detailed in the writing.

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