Sunday, May 12, 2013

In which a Student Offers a Unique Explanation


Re: Sunday comic!

I will begin writing under my future-pseudonym at once! Oh look I've already written an entire bookshelf!

What's the best (i.e., worst) excuse you've heard for plagiarism? 

5 comments:

  1. Now, see, if I'd been apprised of this approach back in the day, it could have saved me a lot of trouble.

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  2. This sounds a lot like something described in the BBC radio series "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy".

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  3. That's quite good. Somebody that sharp probably could have just written the paper in the first place.

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    1. Isn't that always the way with cheating schemes?

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  4. It wasn't exactly an excuse, but one student had been promised a new car by his father if he got straight As, but he was getting a B in my course. . . .

    And yes, the care with which he selected a major magazine article to plagiarize from, and shaped excerpts to fit the assignment, suggests that he was probably capable of getting an A, or at least something in the B+/A- range, on his own if he'd just put his mind to it.

    I do blame the father as well as the kid.

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