Naughty Plagiarists
It was a Day of Obligation today, being Ascension Thursday, so the office was closed. A good day for cleaning one's private office. Wherein one found many many things to throw out.
Proof of plagiarism committed by students who graduated years ago, for instance. I threw those away -- the more recent files are big enough, God knows.
Still, I hated to say goodbye to some of them-- they cause me some grim amusement.
My favorite plagiarism examples so far:
1) The student who believed that his English professor would believe he wrote like William Hazlitt.
2) Two students, in the same sorority, who turned in the same paper for the same course. At the same time.
3) A student who turned in a paper he'd gotten off the internet, which asserted that the Houyhnhnms had read the entire works of Darwin, thereby alerting any non-comatose professor to the fact that Something Was Wrong and Needed to be Examined.
Ah, well. I let them all go.
Knitting content?
I'll take my Catherine Parr sleeve to choir rehearsal. That'll cheer me up.
Proof of plagiarism committed by students who graduated years ago, for instance. I threw those away -- the more recent files are big enough, God knows.
Still, I hated to say goodbye to some of them-- they cause me some grim amusement.
My favorite plagiarism examples so far:
1) The student who believed that his English professor would believe he wrote like William Hazlitt.
2) Two students, in the same sorority, who turned in the same paper for the same course. At the same time.
3) A student who turned in a paper he'd gotten off the internet, which asserted that the Houyhnhnms had read the entire works of Darwin, thereby alerting any non-comatose professor to the fact that Something Was Wrong and Needed to be Examined.
Ah, well. I let them all go.
Knitting content?
I'll take my Catherine Parr sleeve to choir rehearsal. That'll cheer me up.
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