Although I don't condone plagiarism, I can't help but smile about this.
Actually copying from a reputable source - by hand! - would probably seem like harder work to the losers I deal with than just writing their own crappy reports.
my problem is that what my students think is obscure (and what they think I don't know) are very different from reality. I particularly love when students assume that simply because I'm teaching them to write or about literature, I couldn't possibly know any chemistry. Poor them, I had to have Orgo for my masters program...
Sometimes a source can be *too* obscure for Flakey's own good. I've heard of more than one case of term-paper-purchasing being outed because a prof noticed a footnote citing a book that the student couldn't possibly have used. Either the book was in a language the student did not speak, or the only existing copy was in the rare book room of a university on another continent.
My, oh my. Be that Beaker Ben I spy?
ReplyDeleteExcellent find!
ReplyDeleteSo excellent, in fact, that I'd put it in my syllabus next to my plagiarism policy--except we know what would happen then!
ReplyDeleteStudents would actually visit the library for a change.
ReplyDeletemy problem is that what my students think is obscure (and what they think I don't know) are very different from reality. I particularly love when students assume that simply because I'm teaching them to write or about literature, I couldn't possibly know any chemistry. Poor them, I had to have Orgo for my masters program...
ReplyDeleteSometimes a source can be *too* obscure for Flakey's own good. I've heard of more than one case of term-paper-purchasing being outed because a prof noticed a footnote citing a book that the student couldn't possibly have used. Either the book was in a language the student did not speak, or the only existing copy was in the rare book room of a university on another continent.
ReplyDeleteMany of my students are surprised when I tell them that we HAVE a library. Seriously.
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