System and Method for Draft-Contemporaneous Essay Evaluating and Interactive Editing

摘要

The present invention is a computer-based method and system to prevent plagiarized essays from successfully being represented as original authentic work. Rather than relying on access to a database of all known essays, the present invention uses a small pool of no fewer than three essays of verified single authorship to calculate a unique fingerprint for any given author. This fingerprint is a function of the unique presence and use of generic “stopwords” in the pool. The fingerprint can then be applied to an essay of unverified authorship to generate a classification as to the new essay's authenticity.