How to Catch a Plagiarist
Essay by people • December 16, 2011 • Essay • 499 Words (2 Pages) • 1,048 Views
Say you have a lazy student whose idea of research is to go online and steal some work from others. Where should that student go? Straight to he honor council you say for a re-education and perhaps an expulsion. Hell no? Instead why not send him or her to a disreputable paper mill such as this one where he can then steal the ideas of another and pass them off as his own in a lame attempt to get over on one of his professors. These sites, masking as "help" sites are nothing but dishonest intellectual theivery. I am typing this in order to attain my 250 word limit so that I can print off a paper that one of my university students has just submitted as his own. IMagine that. Imagine being so small as to pass off the work of another as your own. Here is some advice on how to catch plagiarist such as this one. If you are a university professor, an adjunct lecturer, a high school teacher, middle school teacher, whatever, simply read through your students paper. If it sounds pretty good: better than you would have expected from him or her than simply go to your computer and type out a phrase or two that seem to be especially well written. Chances are this will result in a "hit" at a place such as the one where you are reading this paper even now. Viola. Captured. Now, what to do next. Well, to start with you will need to type up some piece of garbage like this in a feeble attempt to gain access so that you will be able to prosecute this student for plagiarism. You could get to your 250 word minimum by typing in the words to simple sayings that we all know "a stitch in time saves nine" "many hands make light work" or telling a joke or writing out some song lyrics or a favorite poem. YOu could do typing exercises like " every good boy deserves favor" or "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" or "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party" or Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Or you could just write a bunch of nonsense as I'm doing now. In any event the goal is to get to 250 words wich will grant you access to this site so as to be able to bring this paper to the academic council to start a prosecution of your student and to try and shut down a site like this which under some delusion of creative commons of like nonsense attempts to subvert the academic system. eitherway, I wish you luck as you see to rid academia at all levels of scoundrels and cheats.
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