“Spinbot is a free, automatic article spinner that will rewrite human readable text into additional, readable text. When testing the tool I used some language directly from the Snipbot page: How it works?Īfter trying the tool, I couldn’t help but smirk because the output from Snipbot is rather noticeable. Like many of the tools in our arsenal as educators plagiarism checkers are great to use, but not to be the sole platform for which we review and combat plagiarism. While plagiarism checkers are powerful tools, they are just that, a tool. As educators, it is important to stay up to date on updated tools and trends such as this in an effort to combat plagiarism in all forms. Snipbot and the plagiarism evasion trend was covered by Retraction Watch earlier this year. Because the plagiarized content is run through Snipbot the content will not be identified by plagiarism checkers such as SafeAssign and other similar tools and software. Students are using Snipbot to take plagiarised content, automatically “paraphrase” the content for them, and then submit the work as their own. After selecting a couple basic options and confirming you are not a robot, via reCAPTCHA, you receive an output of a paraphrased version of the original text entered. Basically, Spinbot allows you to copy a body of text and paste it into a text box. Snipbot markets itself as an “Article Spinning, Text Rewriting, Content Creation” tool. For as many plagiarism checkers that are out there and for the vast number of sources they are capable of checking, there are still continuously new tools and methods being developed to circumvent the checkers. The ongoing battle of plagiarism rages on at all levels of education.
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