Taken from cumaeansybil

[conuly]

Yes, this is cruel. But you know what? If it teaches her not to be so stupid in the future, it's worth it. Plagiarism is a crime. Cheating is dishonest, and if you're going to either, you should at least be intelligent enough not to go about it in this stupid fashion, randomly contacting people you don't know.

So the lessons to take from this are as follows:

1. Don't cheat
2. Don't give personal information to strangers online

Comments

[malantha.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, what happens to the guy that wrote it? Can he get in any kind of trouble for that?

[leora.livejournal.com]

Sure, if he's in college... at my college helping someone to plagerize is considered plagerism. Short of that - probably not.

I'm still offended that I caught a plagerist and nobody did anything about it. The problem was, it wasn't for a class. It was for a small, literary magazine, and I couldn't 100% prove it. I just knew I'd read that exact story before and had a decent guess as to where. I don't think they even bothered to check. I think the kid handed in a story written by Penn and Teller... subtle. But my school didn't care because it wasn't school related. *sighs*

Anyhow, I'm all for nailing true plagerism. I'm not for getting overly eager about what you call plagerism. But this is a clear-cut case. Flunk the kid. Consider kicking her out of college.