In May and June every year, most college students face the "top priority" of completing their graduation thesis, and the detection of thesis repetition rate (duplicate checking) has become one of the focus topics. According to the media survey, many businesses smell business opportunities in the "thesis anxiety" and "circle the money" under the banner of "checking the weight must pass" and "reducing the weight professionally". What's more, they boast that "100% of the money is covered, and the fake one pays three" and "the same as the school's checking the weight" and other propaganda slogans to "harvest" the wallets of graduates. (May 18 Yangcheng Evening News)
The paper's duplicate inspection service has formed an industrial chain of encircling money, which is selling well on the Internet, which is the result of strong market demand. Duplication checking technology was originally designed to prevent plagiarism, but there are some problems in the current duplication checking of dissertations. For example, in order to reduce the duplication rate, some students scramble to buy duplication services through network channels, which leads to a rise in the market price of thesis duplication inspection, which also leads to paid duplication reduction services. Duplicate checking technology was originally designed to intercept plagiarized papers and protect originality, but it was used by some plagiarists to try to muddle through by playing word games.
In addition to the above problems, there are still great risks in the duplicate checking service sold online at present. On the one hand, the duplicate checking services provided by some businesses are unreliable and often have errors. If the results provided by businesses are looser than the final duplicate checking results of the school, some papers may fail, and students may not graduate smoothly. On the other hand, when students buy online duplicate checking services, they may resell their papers for profit by some unscrupulous businesses without their knowledge, which will also affect the final duplicate checking results.
The reason why paper duplication checking is regarded as a "major event" by students is that in order to avoid academic paper plagiarism, the school strictly requires the repetition rate of students' graduation thesis to be within a range. Although the existing duplicate checking technology is accurate, it is not intelligent enough, and there are still loopholes to be found. This leads to some papers. Although the repetition rate does not exceed the standard, the quality is not high. After reducing the weight of some plagiarized papers, the repetition rate can also meet the standard. It can be seen that if we rely too much on duplicate checking technology and duplicate checking rate, although it can play a certain role in curbing plagiarism, it also opens the way for grey industries such as "weight reduction", "ghosting" and "stealing and selling" to some extent. The latter not only hinders academic innovation, but also seriously violates the original intention of establishing paper duplication checking technology.
The duplication of papers can not be "killed with one stick", and the repetition rate should also be one of the audit standards for the quality of papers under the existing conditions. However, the paper review cannot be "duplication first", and the duplication rate can only be used as a reference data for the dissertation review, not as a "decision data". Colleges and universities should not rely too much on technical means when evaluating dissertations. They should not deal with the repetition rate of dissertations mechanically or "across the board", but strengthen the "human check". Sometimes, to give some students the opportunity to appeal, whether the paper is plagiarized and qualified requires more scientific and reasonable evaluation criteria. Tutors and schools should also strictly check and do their own responsibilities. This is also the key to prevent the paper review from going to formalism.
In order to cut off the industrial chain of "reducing the weight", "writing on behalf of others" and "stealing and selling" of papers, and rectify the paper duplication inspection market according to law, we need to further improve the paper duplication inspection system, improve the dissertation evaluation system, correct the wrong orientation of "duplication inspection first" of Dissertation Evaluation, and let the dissertation evaluation system play its due role. We should also strengthen academic moral education and severely punish academic misconduct such as plagiarism. Only by tackling both the symptoms and root causes and curbing unreasonable demand can we eradicate the grey industry of paper inspection in the market, improve the quality of dissertations and guide the development of academic innovation.