Friday, December 30, 2011

How to NOT Get Caught...

Grading final papers has been an education in plagiarism.  Below are my top 5 ways to NOT get caught plagiarizing.

5. When cutting and pasting into your paper, remove the "scanned by virus-ware" words.
4. If you are talking in first person, make sure what you copied is also in first person.
3. If you have poor grammar skills, once you cut and paste a paragraph into your paper, go through and make it sound like you. 
2. If the paragraph you are copying is talking about your own people group, it should say "us" not "them."
1.  Don't plagiarize the text book.  Odds are that the teacher has read it before.

Or...you could just cite the source.
Sophomore Grading Pile(s) of Fun

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