Thanks Bean. I guess the last paragraph of that article, which reads But Blackman says he's not convinced money needs to be spent on an Internet policing program. The plagiarism, he says, was discovered by faculty simply paying attention. confirms what I was saying about faculty being able to spot outright plagiarism.

I seemed to have no difficulty spotting it (and I certainly had no qualms about penalising it) when I was teaching. Obviously, you miss one or two smaller things, but usually the writing style is the dead giveaway ...


The idiot also known as Capfka ...