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« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2009, 03:00:29 PM » |
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Dustbin (plagiarists seem not to notice when they're stealing stuff from UK sites).
That's always been a huge tip-off for me: UK spellings. Colour, fibre, theatre, favour. One makes me suspicious; two sends me to Google. I've not yet been wrong on these. |
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« Reply #16 on: December 13, 2009, 03:26:35 PM » |
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It's funny about UK spellings - fibre, colour, etc. I have publishe a number of articles in a journal that is published in the UK. They require these spellings. I no longer catch myself spelling "muslce fibre." The american journals I have submitted to will let me know that I've spelled it wrong.
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« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2009, 03:34:49 PM » |
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I don't teach a writing intensive course, so I don't have much experience with this, but a student using the word clever correctly wouldn't raise any flags for me. It might at my university. I know these students. They've never read anything, and a word like "clever" (with its tiny hint of sophistication) would never occur to them. They'd think it was "gay." Yes, I teach at that university. |
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« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2009, 03:44:59 PM » |
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Aquiline (in a description of a Somali woman). I had to look it up so that raised about a million red flags for me.
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« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2009, 03:47:41 PM » |
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« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2009, 03:50:18 PM » |
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It isn't so much one particular word as it is a collection of words that tip me off. One student sounded like he had written an advertisement for a particular object. Hmm. Found the website within 5 minutes.
This actually happened in a graduate course I was taking. Took Google about 0.5 seconds to find the press release. |
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« Reply #21 on: December 13, 2009, 03:53:45 PM » |
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A little bit different, but again illustrating the effect that just one out-of-place word can have:
I had a graduate student once who referred to someone as an "Honorable Member" of a group. I had no reason to suspect plagiarism from this student, but I was struck by the strange turn of phrase and thought that it might be "Honorary". I happened to be sitting in front of a computer, so I googled just to check ... and up came the entire paragraph I was reading.
I then googled the rest of the paper and found that almost every single sentence was cut and pasted from various internet sources.
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« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2009, 04:04:57 PM » |
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« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2009, 04:07:59 PM » |
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"Impish." Dead giveaway for a student who regularly left parts of speech out of her "sentences." Oh, and I think she used "expedient" too. Yeah, right, sweetpea.
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« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2009, 04:19:14 PM » |
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"Habermas"
Okay, so it's not just a word, but this student actually had no idea who Jurgen Habermas was, and we didn't cover him in class...Just plagiarizing someone else's astute analysis.
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« Reply #25 on: December 13, 2009, 05:11:27 PM » |
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« Reply #26 on: December 13, 2009, 05:37:57 PM » |
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Well, some posters were being naughty here.
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« Reply #27 on: December 13, 2009, 05:58:40 PM » |
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This thread makes me wonder how many of my professors thought I might have been plagiarizing. I might not have been a great writer but I enjoyed the use of obscure words (and excessively complicated sentence structure but that is another issue).
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« Reply #28 on: December 13, 2009, 05:59:24 PM » |
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fecund
(plagiarized and prententious)
It's not necessarily a pretentious word. In the study of population, fertility refers to the reproductive patterns of the population and fecundity refers to the reproductive capacity of individuals in that population. In demographic terms, an individual woman can be fecund but she can not be fertile. |
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« Reply #29 on: December 13, 2009, 06:06:03 PM » |
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Basinward migration. Influx. On- and off-lap sequence.
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