Hah!

[telophase]

While perusing You Suck at Craigslist today, I read the comments on this post about ads for term papers. One of them said, "A few months ago I marked a history paper which was 100% plagiarised from the internet. How did I know it was plagiarised? The paper opened with the words “Sixty years ago, in 1936…”."

Which reminds me of a story I probably already related here, but I'm going to do so again anyway. In my former job, a prof would occasionally drop by my office and ask if I'd do a bit of searching to see if a paper he thought was suspicious had anything taken from the Web in it. He told me that a few years prior, he'd been impressed by a student who came to him and asked if he could write his paper on a particular topic that was dear to his own heart. He said yes, of course. And then was sadly not impressed when the student turned in a paper swiped in its entirety from an article in a specialized encyclopedia that had been written by the professor himself. XD

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[emtigereyes.livejournal.com]

In my former job, a prof would occasionally drop by my office and ask if I'd do a bit of searching to see if a paper he thought was suspicious had anything taken from the Web in it. He told me that a few years prior, he'd been impressed by a student who came to him and asked if he could write his paper on a particular topic that was dear to his own heart. He said yes, of course. And then was sadly not impressed when the student turned in a paper swiped in its entirety from an article in a specialized encyclopedia that had been written by the professor himself. XD

Wow. I don't recall you posting about that before, and I think I would remember this kind of special.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

That sounds about right. In my case, I had an English professor who at first took issue with a paper I'd written, because it seemed to have a bit too much in common with an article available online. Then he read the byline on the article: yes, I had stolen from myself, but I didn't know that his plagiarism search software was good enough to dredge up crap I'd written nearly ten years before.

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

ROFL! Well, it could be worse, at least you could prove it was your own work. If I did that, they'd only have my word on it.

[weirdquark]

Plagiarism: you're doing it even more wrong than one might expect.