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[commonswings]

BLOODY STUDENT

he's as guilty AS SIN of plagiarism but can i find evidence? can i hell...

this is going to have me going mad by the end of today. you are NOT this articulate. you stole this, i know you did, i can just tell... but WHERE THE HELL FROM?

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[roxy641]

Could you give us a sample? Just in case one of US might know?
Or would that be plagiarism (twice over?) {Grins}

Roxy641

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[roxy641]

Or did you mean plagiarism (from another student) rather than a well known author)?

Good luck in finding evidence.

Roxy641

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[commonswings]

actually i think it is from another student. devious little berk wherever it comes from...

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[i_am_tacky]

Stick him with hot pokers until he confesses, I would.

[baldanders]

Are you sure? I speak as someone who was firmly and officially accused of plaigiarism on no evidence except the instructor's certainty that I could not be that articulate based on what he saw of me in class.

[commonswings]

well none of the books in the bibliography have been taken out by him. some of the books in the bibliography we do not have. one particular journal really flummoxes me as to how he got hold of it. and the fact some of it is very poorly written and then he starts bandying about words like tenet and caveat are not looking good for him

i may be wrong, but it's looking suspicious

[baldanders]

Ah. Never mind, then.

[commonswings]

i'm considered by most lecturers here as a bit of a soft touch for the plagiarisers as well, but i really get the whiff of guilt on this one. i tend to think that most cases i get are down to panic over deadlines, or in the worst cases laziness. this one though has gone to great effort if it is plagiarised (which i'm about 95% certain it is) so i'm a lot less sympathetic to his "plight"

[doubtfulme]

GOOD LUCK! eeeeeeeeeeeek!

maybe he has some sort of private resource?

[commonswings]

i suspect he has such a resource called "a friend doing the same work at another college"

[harpersromo]

Take a chunk of his questionable text, put it in quotes, and then see if it comes up on Google. I've found that's highly effective.

[commonswings]

what i usually do and the bugger's not showing up. we're talking a student who in some paragraphs can barely string a sentence together then using words like "caveat" and "tenets" - my theory, because he's taken none of the books from his bibliography out from our library and lots of the bibliography aren't in our college, is that the sod has taken an essay from a friend and copied that and just added his own bits. though how i prove that i have no idea

i think i'll tell the lecturers to ask to see his notes, because there's a very dodgy misquote on one page which i doubt he'll be able to turn up as notes. he'll hand in the correct quote i wager but is that enough? we shall see

certainly the hardest plagiarism case i've had yet!