Posts Tagged ‘plagiarism’

Lessons from a Plagiarist

It happens every semester. Some student, thinking themselves very clever indeed, Googles up a WIkipedia entry, some obscure facts page from some obscure website, an essay from one of the plagiarism sites, or, one time, even one of my own papers, and hands it in as his or her own.

The smarter ones cut out the links and references to the site their paper came… Continue reading

May 13 2009 | By Dustin | Tagged: dignity, ethics, failure, honesty, life-lesson, personal growth, plagiarism | 30 comments»

Advice for Students: How NOT to Plagiarize

With final essays and term papers coming due (at least here in the States) I thought I'd take a moment to offer some well-needed advice to this year's crop of young plagiarizers who are about to fail there classes because of really dumb decisions they're making as I write this. Listen. I know it's been a tough semester and you have a lot of assignments due in a very… Continue reading

November 30 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: cheating, plagiarism, research, student, writing | 25 comments»