Plagiarism and How to Avoid It

Ditto.

I once help out a co-worker with his homework dealing with simple electroinc circuits and he afterward informed me that the instructor told one look at the paper and then ask him who did he get to aid him.

Off hand I would guess if you are doing you job you would know the level of work that any given student would likely hand in along with his writting and thinking style.

One of the cheaters ended up with a Federal holiday name after him it would seem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.


Growing up in Atlanta, King attended Booker T. Washington High School. He skipped ninth and twelfth grade, and entered Morehouse College at age fifteen without formally graduating from high school.[6] In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology,[7] and enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951.[8] King then began doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University and received his Doctor of Philosophy on June 5, 1955.
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A 1980s inquiry concluded portions of his dissertation had been plagiarized and he had acted improperly but that his dissertation still "makes an intelligent contribution to scholarship".[9][10]
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King married Coretta Scott, on June 18, 1953, on the lawn of her parents' house in her hometown of Heiberger, Alabama.[11] King and Scott had four children; Yolanda King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice King.[12] King became pastor of

Why not get them to do a critical review of plagiarized essays on said topic?

Mame I can not help but to laugh as I picture a flood of requests going into such papers writing firms for reviews of the plagiarized issue!

Over four decades ago a home encyclopedia set that my parents had kindly purchased for my benefit came with a fair number of coupons that allow you to request research papers using the coupons.

I would not had been surprise if some of our founding fathers had this form of service available to them<grin>.

No one wish to comment on the subject of MLK being guilty of achieving the doctor title before his name by Plagiarism?

The only American with a Federal Holiday name after him.

Yes to downgrade or question this man is to be a racist it would seem on it face and is therefore forbidden even in this group.

Sorry I always did question the man morals as in placing children in the front of marches to get hit by the fire hoses and the dogs for the TV news cameras to record.

Eh, you can learn a lot from doing a critical review of anything and as a first assignment of the term, it'd be a great lesson for the students. The prof could pick apart various plagiarized essays and get the students in on it. He/she could also show how easy it is for profs to spot plagiarized stuff - wouldn't the students learn an important lesson?

And frankly, morality aside, I rank plagiarized work at the same level of importance to me as athletes on steroids. Hey, if you're the type of person that decides he needs to cheat, go ahead. You won't get my respect but it's no sweat off my nose. Your behaviour always comes back to bite you in the butt.

Edit: If I were a teacher and concerned about this, I'd start the term by saying plagiarized works abound, I'm familiar with them, and anyone getting caught plagiarizing gets a ZERO and I'd attach a copy of the work plagiarized to theirs as proof. That'd stop them in their tracks.