gordsellar’s avatargordsellar’s Twitter Archive—№ 8,711

  1. Notice to students: It's a bad idea to plagiarize. But it's an even worse idea to leave material in the document that makes it even easier for the instructor to track down the source of the material.
    1. …in reply to @gordsellar
      (In this case, the student took some non-English text from the web, translated it to English, but then left the original and easily-Googled non-English material in the document.)
      1. …in reply to @gordsellar
        The worst part is the student chose something unnecessarily difficult to translate, and probably suffered more than they otherwise would have just writing a simple paragraph of their own. It was a *formatting* exercise, after all.