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As well as offering an innovative way to handle traditional sorts of plagiarism, PAIRwise fights fire with fire, using computing technologies to address plagiarism from the Internet.

Students submit written assignments to a website. PAIRwise then analyzes those assignments and produces a report that identifies instances of likely plagiarism by indicating the percentage of each assignment that shares identical wording with other sources. This information is presented graphically for instructors to use in making their own judgments about whether students have followed instructions for citations, collaboration, and academic integrity.

PAIRwise is quick and easy to use. It takes an instructor only minutes to subscribe a course to the service, and the web interface for students is just as simple.

The results are presented in easy-to-interpret graphical form and allow the instructor to quickly access and evaluate the details of each case.

PAIRwise generates side-by-side comparisons of suspect assignments with identical passages highlighted for positive identification of plagiarism.

SIDE-BY-SIDE PAPER COMPARISON

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PAIRwise works by comparing assignments to likely plagiarism sources, looking for passages with identical word usage. It compares each assignment to every other assignment, to a database of previously submitted work, and to Internet sources.

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