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| quote: | Originally posted by occrider
Sigh ... people are getting so lazy in their plagarism nowadays. First off, you never use another essay as your own. What idiot does that? I can't think of an easier way to get busted. The way to do it is to develop your theory independantly. Then find research papers that corroborate your thesis in numerous ways. Ideally, you want 3 or 4 different papers, one for each supporting argument. Then you start pulling specific paragraphs from these research papers and essentially rewrite the paragraph. Since you're stealing ideas from these papers, you don't want to actually cite that paper as a source, so what you do is you cite the sources that the paper you're stealing from cites. If the professor looks into it, everything checks out, because it appears that you're developing your ideas yourself and properly citing the sources where you got the idea from. So now you have a paper with an independant thesis, you're using material from a variety of sources rather than one, and you have citations. Almost impossible to get busted unless you're an idiot or lazy ... in which case you deserve ridicule.
What the hell kind of English class has you writing "cause and effect" papers? Do they have you doing derivatives in history class? |
That seems like more work than writing it yourself, having to find and sort through all those essays, and rewriting them
I guess if its on some topic thats hard or confusing that method would work though
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