41 Prevention of Textual Plagiarism

This research is mainly about detecting and preventing plagiarism among students. It provides the capability to detect similarities between documents submitted by students. The main focus of this research is to perform a study on how to detect textual plagiarism. Textual 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 other's work. Rabin - Karp Algorithm which is a string searching algorithm that uses hashing to compare the strings will be use in detecting the similarities among the files. As a result, the developed application is able to make comparison in order to find for the similarities among them. The percentage of similarities will then be generated in a text format for reference.