Fifty ways to detect a ghostwriter
Date Issued
2011
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Abstract
Ghostwriting became students’ most popular way to avoid
writing of boring essays, or the best way to easily earn by
writing on behalf of another student.
This paper presents several markers indicating a presence of
potential ghostwriters. Proposed methodology suggests
various inspection techniques, which do not prove anything
in isolation. Whenever they are jointly implemented, they
successfully cluster the essays, suggesting plausible
absence, potential and almost certain presence of one or few
ghostwriters. After the initial clustering, all the papers go
through subtle linguistic check. In our sample, later
approach discovered some unexpected phrases which
confirmed the presence of the same ghostwriters not only in
the current, but also in the previous generations.
writing of boring essays, or the best way to easily earn by
writing on behalf of another student.
This paper presents several markers indicating a presence of
potential ghostwriters. Proposed methodology suggests
various inspection techniques, which do not prove anything
in isolation. Whenever they are jointly implemented, they
successfully cluster the essays, suggesting plausible
absence, potential and almost certain presence of one or few
ghostwriters. After the initial clustering, all the papers go
through subtle linguistic check. In our sample, later
approach discovered some unexpected phrases which
confirmed the presence of the same ghostwriters not only in
the current, but also in the previous generations.
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