I followed a link in my referrer log and found this, which I think is funny:
Chances are that you are reading this because you found a reference to this web page from your web server logs. This reference was left by Turnitin.com’s web crawling robot, also known as TurnitinBot. This robot collects content from the Internet for the sole purpose of helping educational institutions prevent plagiarism. In particular, we compare student papers against the content we find on the Internet to see if we can find similarities. For more information on this service, please visit www.turnitin.com
4 responses so far ↓
1 nic // Mar 24, 2003 at 2:26 pm
It saddens me that this is necessary.
2 scotty the body // Mar 24, 2003 at 2:30 pm
I wonder if I could attempt to sell any of my old papers. What’s the market on English Literature essays and papers looking like these days?
I wrote one about the “meaninglessness” of Moby Dick that Dan Tynan admited, in a drunken mess, was brilliant and sloppy.
3 Scotty The Body // Mar 26, 2003 at 1:48 pm
I get a lot of e-mails and/or form-mails from college and high school students basically asking me to write their papers for them, or at least do all the research.
Paraphrase Quote:
Hi. Cool site. I am looking for information on ________ and found your site. Can you please send me everything you have on __________. I have had no luck on the Internet and my paper is due this week. Thanks!
4 Elliott // Mar 26, 2003 at 2:41 pm
That’s hilarious. I guess the lesson for those who plagiarize is that they should, under no circumstances, submit a paper in electronic format.
In high school, my Aincient and Medieval History teacher, Mr. Hilgendorf, told a story of a freshman who made a ten-page term paper about textile production in the middle ages out of whole cloth, including bogus sources. It turned out his teacher was something of an expert on the subject. The fellow was suspended for three weeks, and went on to be a successful screenwriter.
My father tells a story about someone at his college who turned in a creative writing assignment he had copied word-for-word from a magazine, only to find out that his professor had written said story under a pen name. He was given time to pack his bags.
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