NOTE FROM KIM:

Students who cut and paste sentences or phrases
from the Internet to use in their school papers
are being caught by teachers who use Google to
search for the original use of those phrases.

The Top 9 Signs You Plagiarized
Your Term Paper From the Internet

9> Every other page is a pop-up ad.

8> The topic for your Finance 201 paper: “Achieving Financial Independence by Assisting in the Transfer of Assets of Deposed Nigerian Leaders.”

7> The title is “5h4kE5pE4r3′5 Ki|\|g L34r.”

6> As your teacher turns to read page two, she gets the dreaded “Blue Page of Death.”

5> Your paper on the Battle of Waterloo includes Napoleon’s famous “French are l33t, English are lam0rs” speech.

4> Your entire report consists of a single URL.

3> You forgot to remove “Results 1-10 of about 1,873,300. Search took 1.34 seconds.”

2> Your bibliography consists of three sources: Google, Yahoo and Alta Vista.

and the Number 1 Sign You Plagiarized Your Term Paper From the
Internet…

1> Your professor remembers posting it on Usenet back in 1983 when he was a student researching the same topic.

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Credits:

Selected from 54 submissions from 20 contributors.
Today’s Top 5 List authors are:

Chuck Burke, Phoenix, NY — 1
Bruce Kane, Bentonville, AR — 2
Matt Van Opens, Kenosha, WI — 3
RW Lipp, Lenexa, KS — 4, 7
Matt Hurlburt, Stow, OH — 5
Joe Terranova, Lake Orion, MI — 6, 8, 9 (Hat trick!)
Kim Moser, New York, NY — List Moderator, Topic