Poll: Have you ever plagerized someone else's work?

A recent study showed that 38% of the students polled had committed cut and paste plagerism. I can believe this, I helped a friend of mine track down the original sources online of papers his students handed in. This option wasn't available to me when I was a student. The closest I ever came was when the girl sitting next to me passed me a note with the answer to question on a French test and I use it. I was so nervous that i put it in the the wrong space.

A website that is spreading like wildfire through colleges across the country.� It's a term paper database that students can submit their term papers too.� Then the class instructor can do a search based on all other term papers and other text that exists around the internet and see just how much of the paper was cut and pasted.� Very very handy tool to really help curb cheating.� Cheating is not fair to those who actually do the work.

narc

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anarchist :-)

I was falsely accused of plagiarism in high school English 2 years running... taught me to dumb down my prose and switch to engineering. Thanks american education system!

I never cared enough about marks to steal someone elses work Im to much of a slacker to find something good to rip off

Take that back!!!

When I was ten I wrote a school essay based on a detective show that screened on television a short while earlier. Didn't occur to me that its plager..., plagiar..., theft. It was just a great story worth retelling.

At 19 I sold a cartoon to a magazine that was a brazen rip-off of someone else's creativity. That time I was very much aware of the meaning of plagiarism, but the cheque I eventually got for it arrived just in time to stop me being evicted for being outrageously behind in rental payments.

Now I have noticed that my lifestyle is an unacknowledged reworking of Walter Mitty's. To me it is a tragedy. Everyone else who bothers to comment, erm, wait, no, nobody does.

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Anarchist :-(