Plagiarism

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I'm not spending time collecting evidence. I was actually reading information on the topic of our discussion after reading the text on Stanford University website, to get a better ideal of the material, and as I began to respond to other students I realized that the material I was responding to I read previously on the Stanford website. I won't report him though. We only have 2 weeks left in the course. I just found it interesting that people will copy word for word with little to no fear at all.

Actually all the student(s) really had to do was write a few sentences and quote the copied dialogue and it would have been fine. Most would hope, through academic studies (Eng Comp I&II) the student(s) in question would have already learned this but there is always room for growth. Maybe the professor will instruct the student on how to correctly quote source material.

Separately, there would be no need for programs such as turnitin if counteless students did not blatantly plagiarize papers.