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That was especially true when I was teaching at an open enrollment college. Some of the papers I got were *gag*!

Let's say for the sake of argument that you received 100 papers to grade by Monday. Piece of cake right? WRONG. If the instructor spends a basic 6 minutes per paper (that's going REALLY FAST), that's 10/hour or 10 hours grading. But there's always at least one that takes MUCH more time. Maybe you recognize the reference, or maybe it's simply too good to have come from a freshman from a deprived background--so you know he's cheating. Sometimes it's as simple as typing an especially erudite sentence into Google and seeing what you come up with. There are also cheating sites that store old term papers that will sell them to you. There are also special academic search engines that specialize in ferreting out plagiarism.

I've over the years had people plagiarise the TEXTBOOK from the section we were reading. Did they really think I didn't read my own textbook???

I had one case of a really bright girl in my Intro class. As bright as she was, I knew she hadn't written a PhD-level essay. So after a little poking and prodding on the internet, I found the source used. It was EGREGIOUS, with only a few words changed here and there over a space of about two whole pages. So I printed off the original source, marked the lifted lines in yellow highlighter, and waited until class was over to talk to the student. I asked her if she had anything to tell me about the paper (this is a huge red flag, people--if a professor says it to you, you know you're going down!) She at first insisted she hadn't plagiarized (which, as it turned out, was true). With a little more probing, she confessed that she'd paid another student $50 to write the term paper for her and THAT student had plagiarized the paper. There is no honour among thieves. The stealing was so profound I have to wonder if the other student really wanted this student to get caught...? I hated having to fail one of the brightest students in my class.

Plagiarism pisses me off. There was this kid in my class last year who got caught. The teacher wasn't as forgiving as you and called him out in front of the whole class. I'll be honest in saying my writing sucks, mostly because i don't put too much thought into it, but when i do try i do pretty decent. My AP english teacher made us look at 5 papers and grade them, it was painful. The thing was that they were papers from other AP students. I feel bad for professors and teachers, especially the standard and honors level teachers, grading those must be painful, especially having to grade easy on them. High school needs to be harder. It's supposed to prepare you for college, but the student has to go out of their way to do that. If the student were to not want to go to college to begin with and take those easy standard classes, then after high school, go take college classes, they are probably going to struggle because they didn't even learn those basic writing skills, and they're gonna suffer because high school didn't do what it needed to do. That's just what i think though, mostly because my older brother is struggling with these problems. lol, he's actually moving back in with us because he just lost everything... for the 3rd time... and he's only 24... He's lost and confused sadly. He doesn't know what he wants to do.

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