KARACHI – A Pakistani start-up State.ink, tackling the problem of plagiarism in coursework and research papers, has released its software for public use.
Wasi Khan, the founder of Slate.ink, says the motivation is to not only fill the dearth of plagiarism checking services for students in Pakistan but to address technical and functional weaknesses of current plagiarism- detection technologies.
Before launching it to the public, the software was only available for private use in leading institutes in Karachi.
So far, the product State Desktop has gotten great reviews from academia. According to Dr Shahid Qureshi, Associate Director at BA, Slate Desktop has made the writing process more productive, and Saqib Saleem, Associate Professor at IBA, calls it a “highly accurate tool”.
Tahir Hussain Ratlamwala, a leading scholar and Head of Research at SZABIST, calls Slate Desktop “amazing software which he hopes will give tough competition to Turnitin and Crossref”.
A key differentiating point between competing software and “Slate Desktop” is its plagiarism checker called “Plagiarism Stack”. Plagiarism Stack is real-time and unlike other plagiarism-checking services gives immediate feedback for text susceptible to be plagiarized. Moreover, Slate Desktop serves a dual purpose and helps its users to cite and manage references as well.
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