When I was an undergrad I was a grader for a large freshman class. There were something like 20 sections of the class and a bunch of graders, so we'd each end up getting about three sections' worth of papers each week, not always the same ones. I suppose that was pretty good odds for the students in question, but I was still pretty surrprised to find two essays that were word-for-word identical in my pile one week. These guys didn't even try -- they didn't even file off the serial numbers and rephrase in their own words! Sad.
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Date: 2005-05-16 02:23 am (UTC)When I was an undergrad I was a grader for a large freshman class. There were something like 20 sections of the class and a bunch of graders, so we'd each end up getting about three sections' worth of papers each week, not always the same ones. I suppose that was pretty good odds for the students in question, but I was still pretty surrprised to find two essays that were word-for-word identical in my pile one week. These guys didn't even try -- they didn't even file off the serial numbers and rephrase in their own words! Sad.
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Date: 2005-05-16 02:30 am (UTC)The Internet makes plagiarism easy. Fortunately, it also makes it easy to catch.
But, unfortunately, I found another case tonight. Argh...