Whois & Analysis for ithenticate.com

iThenticate is a plagiarism detection service for the corporate market, from iParadigms, LLC, which also runs the websites Turnitin and Plagiarism.org.

The service was launched in 2004, as result of market demand.

The service, headquartered in Oakland, California, is marketed to "publishers, news agencies, corporations, law firms, and government agencies." As of 2007, its clients included the World Health Organization, the United Nations, and the World Bank.

Plagiarism detection is the process of locating instances of plagiarism within a work or document.

The widespread use of computers and the advent of the Internet has made it easier to plagiarize the work of others.

Most cases of plagiarism are found in academia, where documents are typically essays or reports.

However, plagiarism can be found in virtually any field, including novels, scientific papers, art designs, and source code.

Writing is a medium of human communication that represents language and emotion through the inscription or recording of signs and symbols.

In most languages, writing is a complement to speech or spoken language.

Writing is not a language but a form of technology that developed as tools developed with human society.

Within a language system, writing relies on many of the same structures as speech, such as vocabulary, grammar and semantics, with the added dependency of a system of signs or symbols.

The result of writing is generally called text, and the recipient of text is called a reader.

Motivations for writing include publication, storytelling, correspondence and diary.

Writing has been instrumental in keeping history, maintaining culture, dissemination of knowledge through the media and the formation of legal systems.

Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.

In some cases, authors may be their own publishers, meaning originators and developers of content also provide media to deliver and display the content for the same.

Also, the word publisher can refer to the individual who leads a publishing company or an imprint or to a person who owns/heads a magazine.

An author is narrowly defined as the originator of any written work and can thus also be described as a writer (with any distinction primarily being an implication that an author is a writer of one or more major works, such as books or plays).

More broadly defined, an author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility for what was created.

The more specific phrase published author refers to an author (especially but not necessarily of books) whose work has been independently accepted for publication by a reputable publisher, versus a self-publishing author or an unpublished one.