What is Plagiarism?

Plagiarism is defined as using someone else’s work or words, ideas, researches without the approval or the acknowledgment of the writer, and claiming the credit for themselves. Many reasons and factors contribute to plagiarism. It could be cultural, historical, linguistic, environmental, Psychological Factors and educational background. Or it can be socialization, efficiency gain, motivation for study, methodological uncertainties or easy access to electronic information via the Internet and new technologies, as reasons driving plagiarism.

Plagiarism has been classified as a multi-layer phenomenon of dishonesty and cheating that occurs in higher education. Honesty is the foundation of good academic work. Whether you are working on a project, lab report, journal paper or article, or thesis avoid engaging in plagiarism (intentionally or unintentionally), unauthorized collaboration, cheating, as all of these facilitating academic dishonesty.

Plagiarism is a form of academic dishonesty, academic misconduct, and digital cheating and a breach of journalistic ethics. It is declared to be an unacceptable legal act according to the institutional regulations.

And universities, schools, and instructors do not only need to decrease plagiarism, but they must also affect positively on students writings, increase the understanding of how to use digital technology to facilitate their academic writing.

There has always been a need to check for the similarity for the authenticity of research work done in the academic sector. Developed countries like the US and other European countries took plagiarism very seriously to maintain the quality of research happening in academic institutes. They follow strict guidelines and use specific tools to check the originality and similarity of research with the content on the web. There has always been a vacuum in terms of availability of any credible plagiarism checker to raise the quality bar in Indian research institutes.

CFP (Check-For-Plag) has been developed with the core idea of meeting expectations of higher education institutes in terms of quality of research in academics. It has been developed under Make-In-India initiative to reduce the dependence on foreign service providers.