While this advice is probably a bit late for this semester (since I finished my exams on wednesday), I’ll be sure to keep all these useful tips in mind before I plagiarise work next semester!
http://alex.halavais.net/?p=1427
With such useful tips like “dont rite to good”, and “borrow from someone who writes as badly as you do”, it’s full of plagiarism gold!
Good stuff. It was funnier in the days before computers, when some audacious students used to submit a copy of another’s work in toto. The marker was left with a strange deja vu experience of the text, typing and even the paper stock. Really took a lot of nerve (or stupidity) on behalf of the students, particulalry in small classes. I had two students who claimed total innocence even in the face of direct confrontation with the hard evidence. Instant double failure! Then one of the pair had the additional gall of complaining that she could not possibly fail a unit at Masters level. One wonders how she got that far and was not caught out. The really disturbing thing was that this psychpathic personality was about to be let forth into the community as a practising psychologist.
Ruth