Plagiarism
Sometimes rather belatedly, though. My mother, who taught English for six
years, wrote in her autobiography:
There were some bleak moments [in teaching], too, such as the time one of my
smartest boys, assigned to write a poem, turned in one that was really
outstanding. If the boy had been a less talented student, I might have
suspected him of cribbing, but I never gave that a thought about this
particular boy. When I later ran across that poem in an anthology, I was
crushed. I have often wondered how he felt when I bragged on him so lavishly
and he knew he had cheated.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"Tom [Pepper] Willett" wrote in message
...
Back in the *old* days, before computers, people were able to identify
plagiarism.
Tom
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
: If they're not very savvy (and are using their own personal computers
and
: not ones in a lab somewhere), looking at the document Properties might
be
: revealing. But I would use Compare Documents to compare the files and,
if
: they are identical (or even sufficiently similar), give an F to *all*
the
: students involved. It doesn't matter who wrote the document; if he
shared
: it, he is cheating just as much as the ones who copied it.
:
: --
: Suzanne S. Barnhill
: Microsoft MVP (Word)
: Words into Type
: Fairhope, Alabama USA
:
: "gotcha" wrote in message
: ...
: In teaching an Intro to Office 2007 at a tech college, I have to deal
with
: a
: few students (usually young males) who want to pass around one copy of
a
: project file for 3 or 4 of them to submit as their own work. So far,
my
: evidence is that each student displays exactly the same lengthy list
of
: detail errors. I would like something more concrete and less labor
: intensive
: for me.
:
: Is there something buried in a Word, Excel, etc., file that would
uniquely
: identify that 3 copies of the same project file came from the same
copy
of
: Word or from the same Wintel machine?
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