Students Plagiarized Honor Code

2 May

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This is just funny:

Their goal was an honor code that discouraged cheating and plagiarizing.

However, the wording in a draft by students at the University of Texas at San Antonio appears to match another school’s code — without proper attribution.

The student currently in charge of the honor code project said it was an oversight, but cheating experts say it illustrates a sloppiness among Internet-era students who don’t know how to cite sources properly and think of their computers as cut-and-paste machines.

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3 Responses to “Students Plagiarized Honor Code”

  1. Cade 02. May, 2008 at 4:38 pm #

    Dang.

    These are college students, not middle-schoolers?

    Dang.

  2. Dreamer 05. May, 2008 at 4:51 pm #

    Ah, Irony. Gotta love it.

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