Exfactor Wrote:It's a history course.



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.

Exfactor Wrote: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.

bricabrac Wrote: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.

Exfactor Wrote:Exactly, but the student didn't do that. Nothing was in his words. He went and found information on the topic of our discussion via Google, copied all the information on the Stanford website (page), posted it as his discussion post, then went to answers.yahoo.com, searched for questions that people asked years prior in regard to our topic of discussion, copied their answers. Then went to the excelsior library searched for peer-reviewed studies on our topic of discussion and selected a few random studies and plugged them in as sources for the copied material. Some students just want the degree without putting in the work.

I think one of the benefits of turnitin is that it keeps a copy of the papers submitted, which pretty much makes papers useless if they were to be used again in another course. However, with other things I've found Google to be just as good as turnitin in regard to searching for random plagiarism.

soliloquy Wrote:You are better than me. I would tell it. Why should I have to bust my butt coming up with new material while some dishonest, lazy, student sails through the course. No, it doesn't affect me directly but I'm not one of those people that thinks the solution to the problem is to let wrong just slide by.

defscarlett Wrote:IMO someone else blatantly plagiarizing at the school would absolutely affect another classmate. The worth of everyone's college degree is good enough reason for me to turn someone in.

bricabrac Wrote:What's funny is that with all the work plagiarists put forth trying to save time/work, wouldn't it have been so much easier, and faster, to just type up 3 sentences (topic, point, conclusion), copy a supporting paragaph and quote. IMO, it's actually ridiculous to do especially since in most discussion forums a 150-200 word post is usually more than enough. Followed by two 50-100 word responses.

Why anyone would risk their academic career on something so easy to complete is simply beyond understanding.

bricabrac Wrote: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.

cookderosa Wrote:Maybe he CLEPped English 101 and 102? LOL sorry, couldn't resist. milelol:

soliloquy Wrote:You are better than me. I would tell it. Why should I have to bust my butt coming up with new material while some dishonest, lazy, student sails through the course. No, it doesn't affect me directly but I'm not one of those people that thinks the solution to the problem is to let wrong just slide by.