exactly, and u just know there’s at least one 14-year-old zit face in every eighth grade who’s just irredeemably convinced that he’s so much smarter than the teacher and will not get caught copying complete paragraphs online
but yr 100% right though, mouski’s point shouldn’t rly be of concern in this aspect as long as the student (and the teacher, mind u, cuz that can actually be the issue sometimes, rofl) understands what constitutes plagiarism and what doesn’t
I actually worked for that company for a while, cuz i just had no other choice, and it’s just astonishing how some ppl just don’t understand how it works; they have ppl there who run tools on the essays before sending them through, and I had to explain several times how something wasn’t frikkin plagiarism cuz the frikkin passage was in double quotes, with its author identified before or after, and with complete frikkin reference citations (as mentioned in the frikkin job instructions in the first place), but the chimpanzees in whatever jungle they were located in just kept flagging shit cuz the frikkin tool kept highlighting the frikkin passages, and all they understood was frikkin color codes, and highlights meant plagiarism as far as they understood it!!!
so then it had to be escalated to ppl with actual brains a level above to clear that shit out, several times; it was just horrible
I once proofread a university professor’s book and had him remove tons of parts because it was literally copy pasted from online articles, not to mention he had to remove a WHOLE chapter after I looked into its subject matter because the argument seemed pretty fishy to me and it turned out that the “research” he based that chapter on in fact originated from a prank magazine from the 80s or 90s, which he ofc didn’t know.
The sad truth is that there’s even tons of ppl out there with fake degrees plastered over their walls.
It was most likely imgur. IIRC the teacher did a quick google search or something. Then again, it is anecdotal evidence.
I apologize, I tried looking for it, but it’s hard without knowing the title (it could be anything really, even just “.”) so I can find it in my history, and imgur’s search function sucks.
In those cases you can see the author of the work. So as long as the student’s name was on the submission online they should be safe from the full ‘academic misconduct’ thing.
Fun fact though, if the student is attempting to submit work that they did for something else, that can be technically considered ‘self-plagiarism’ by attempting to pass off previous work as something they have done for this new assignment.
I don’t remember the full details unfortunately, I don’t think it was used for another assignment or anything. I think it was like a blog or something.
