Comments | cue_dot: plagiarism

cue_dot

plagiarism

Apr 20, 2005 21:12

My faith in humanity was a little bit decreased today.

*sigh*

Comments 5

___blank___ April 21 2005, 01:48:14 UTC

That shocked me the first set of assignments I marked.

Then I was forced to accept how prevalent it was, and how I could do nothing about it.

kerblamo April 21 2005, 02:12:10 UTC

I think the first-year general engineering programming course at Carleton basically worked on the honour system. You would submit your code and EXE electronically, and there was a 1/10 chance somebody would check it. If they checked it, and it didn't work, you'd be penalized a little bit extra, maybe the value of one assignment.

They only checked 1/10 of the assignments, and I think there was still so much blatant copying that they picked up on a bunch of cases.

jayguevara April 21 2005, 15:01:24 UTC

Post it! (Besides, I need fodder for my Super Top Secret Operation)

cue_dot April 22 2005, 14:20:12 UTC

somehow I think that would be highly unethical.

jayguevara April 22 2005, 14:22:44 UTC

So is plagiarism, and it is well known that two wrongs make a right...