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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Hello everyone,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I come bearing a story I suspect will amuse.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>At around 5 a.m. on May 6, a student preparing to submit a
plagiarized paper through Turnitin.com cleverly decided to see if there were any
ways to avoid detection. He found <A
href="http://www.metacafe.com/watch/322998/how_to_cheat_turnitin_com/">this
video tip </A>on Metacafe, but was having trouble following its advice, possibly
because one needs to use the pause button liberally to read the title cards
before they vanish. (Yes, it works. <A
href="http://mikesmit.com/show_post.php?id=1142982720">Sort of</A>. There are <A
href="http://mikesmit.com/show_post.php?id=1142628720">better ways</A>, but they
take more work.)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Then the aspiring miscreant found a <A
href="http://chronicle.com/forums/index.php/topic,58811.0.html">neat little
discussion thread </A>about that advice, and a bunch of people debating how well
that tip works. </FONT><FONT face=Arial>He decided to ask all those cheat-savvy,
articulate posters how to beat the Turnitin.com system. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Seems reasonable.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><EM>However</EM>: The forum in question was a discussion
board at the Chronicle of Higher Education. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The responses are scathing. And often funny. (One
is vicious enough that the moderator gets involved, telling an unruly prof to
behave and editing out part of the offending post.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Click the "thread" link above, if you're interested
in this diversion. Scroll down to the post by Williamvin (the student in
question). He posts three times, and never quite seems to get that he has just
waded into a pool of sharks. My favorite post by him appears after the first
round of sniping, and reads as follows:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000>Whats the matter? I dont think i did
anything wrong.<BR><BR>I just asked what should i ask..<BR><BR>Dont think you
all are smart.<BR><BR>Just walk away from here if you are not answering my
question.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This missive triggers the second round of
sniping.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Gray Scott</FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>