Most people I know are usually surprised they even hit the max limit, never mind surpassed it...
Though, I think the plagiarism thing has more to do with a fairly universal, though by no means entire, misunderstanding of just what plagiarism actually is. A professor-friend of my mother's never starts to teach a new class of students but what she spends most of the first lecture carefully explaining the difference — complete with diagrams.
It has something to do, she hypothesized, with the fact that plagiarism in the workplace isn't nearly so tightly policed as it is in an accademic setting. At work, people steal pages of reports back and forth all over the place and don't think twice about it. It's expected and even approved of for the sake of efficiency and time. After all, the company owns all the reports and their content, anyway.
Schools are a wee bit more testy about such things, since they don't own most of the material they use.
*grin* Though really, it could all just be simply a conspiracy to tick you off and nothing more.
"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."
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Date: 2003-04-07 08:29 am (UTC)Though, I think the plagiarism thing has more to do with a fairly universal, though by no means entire, misunderstanding of just what plagiarism actually is. A professor-friend of my mother's never starts to teach a new class of students but what she spends most of the first lecture carefully explaining the difference — complete with diagrams.
It has something to do, she hypothesized, with the fact that plagiarism in the workplace isn't nearly so tightly policed as it is in an accademic setting. At work, people steal pages of reports back and forth all over the place and don't think twice about it. It's expected and even approved of for the sake of efficiency and time. After all, the company owns all the reports and their content, anyway.
Schools are a wee bit more testy about such things, since they don't own most of the material they use.
*grin* Though really, it could all just be simply a conspiracy to tick you off and nothing more.
"Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you."