It's better when students plagiarize from the internet; google's so much better at finding their sources on web pages than my eyes are on the pages of books. I find 'em anyway, it just takes about two minutes instead of two seconds. And if I can't, if they used a book or person I don't have access to, there's an even simpler way. It goes like this:
"Please have a seat and tell me what you wrote about in this essay you handed in yesterday. You can't tell me? You have no idea? Well, that's too bad. Here's a red zero."
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yeah, that's very goofy of your students. unbelievable, really-- what's teh point of going to school if you don't want to learn? also, what tips you off to suspect that something was plagiarized? seems like they all have tons of funny mistakes.......
the first big tip off is good english, including sentence structure and vocabulary. i know which of my students can articulat and which can't. i may have 111 students, but i've spent alot of time chatting with each of them.
the other big tip off is brilliance. about half the time i read an interpritation of a story i didn't think of myself, the student didn't think of it himself either. the times the student did think of something great i am very proud, and i tell her so. i say "her" because no boy has displayed brilliance yet.
o, and there are two reasons for wtudying without wanting to learn: diploma, and avoiding the mandatory draft. it is boys who plagiarize more. when girls do, it seems like that have no idea it's wrong to lie. very sad. well, that's why i came to lithuania: make them proud of achievement and ashamed of lying, looting, and mooching, instead of the other way around.
obviously i'm half way through atlas shrugged.
"that's why i came to lithuania: make them proud of achievement and ashamed of lying, looting, and mooching, instead of the other way around"
- that makes me proud to call you a friend:)
i know what it's like to be halfway through an ayn rand book. once, halfway through fountainhead i berated this girl at a party for liking 'classical' architecture and all its frills.
of course, why not? i still feel that copying and leeching are some of the vilest means of existence and that you arai are fighting an unnecessary evil in the 'post-soviet' world.
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