I have a fanfiction question

rosecrystal · Post by **rosecrystal** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:16 am

What would be a way to see if someone plagerized a fanfiction?

A girl at the local high school say she wrote this story that doesn't mach her own writing style and then challeged the teachers to find away to prove that she plagerized it. It was about a girl named Mayu. Mayu is taken by her father to a place where they get to pick a parter and she gets a white tiger. The tiger had telapathicly told her to name it.

Does anyone know of anywhere I might find some information on anything like this?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:22 am

Ummmm, try a different website.

Like one that actually has something to do with fanfiction.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:42 am

Sounds like Ronin Warriors - but only because of the lion (I don't remember the girl's name in that anime).

You might try submitting the fic to the PPP - plaigerism police. Just do a google search for 'plaigerism fanfiction ppp' and their website should pop up. If they can't identify it, no one can.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:45 am

Eck. >.<

Yeah...make sure you don't use my spelling in your search. That's one of those words I always spell wrong. Here - a direct link:

http://fablespinner.com/ppp/

rosecrystal · Post by **rosecrystal** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:29 am

ok. Thanks.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:39 am

Be sure to check the sister site - for non-anime fiction. This story is also similar to one of Anne McCaffrey's Pern novels - namely the 'animal partner' and telepathy, and the naming. I'd have to know a lot more about the story to tell one way or another, but that series comes to mind.

The usual way for college professors to identify plagiarism is to plug straight lines into the archives - they have a sort of 'website' just for that. But that's more essays and research papers. For this, you might try a google search if you think it's fanfiction - or check fantasy book groups on yahoo groups to see if the plot rings similar to any specific stories.

Regardless, it's definitely off-topic. Expect this thread to be locked. ^.~

J-0080 · Post by **J-0080** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:09 pm

Arigatomyna wrote: The usual way for college professors to identify plagiarism is to plug straight lines into the archives - they have a sort of 'website' just for that.

So if you just reworded it some it wouldn't show?

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 7:36 pm

J-0080 wrote:
Arigatomyna wrote: The usual way for college professors to identify plagiarism is to plug straight lines into the archives - they have a sort of 'website' just for that.
So if you just reworded it some it wouldn't show?

Not if it surpases your level of intelligence

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:57 pm

The last I heard they were planning (or already had) it so the scanner would look for patterns even if the paper is reworded. This would identify papers in which certain words are in about the same area in two different texts - looking for repeated similarities. That would send an alarm out for those two as possible matches (though not word-for-word, you can paraphrase an entire text and it's plagiarism if you don't cite the source - putting it in your own words isn't original if you're just repeating someone else's concept). It's then up to the professor to compare the similar texts and determine if there is a rip-off. Of course, if the person gave proper citation, it doesn't matter if they paraphrased the entire paper - so long as they didn't claim it as their own.

Moonlight Soldier · Post by **Moonlight Soldier** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 9:07 pm

Arigatomyna wrote:The last I heard they were planning (or already had) it so the scanner would look for patterns even if the paper is reworded. This would identify papers in which certain words are in about the same area in two different texts - looking for repeated similarities. That would send an alarm out for those two as possible matches (though not word-for-word, you can paraphrase an entire text and it's plagiarism if you don't cite the source - putting it in your own words isn't original if you're just repeating someone else's concept). It's then up to the professor to compare the similar texts and determine if there is a rip-off. Of course, if the person gave proper citation, it doesn't matter if they paraphrased the entire paper - so long as they didn't claim it as their own.

Yep.

I think they have done that already. In fact I think my school just purchased a program like it. Stupid thing, I had to sacrifice a disk to stick my essay on so they could check it.