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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder
Reminds of a story. I was taking an upper-division history class and one requirement of the class was a paper. When the day came for papers to be returned, the prof says 8 people plagiarized their papers. The way he handled it was if they came in and admitted they plagiarized he wouldn't report them to the Dean. Around 15 came in.
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That's classic! I had the same thing happen to me in a first year English class at Iowa--I only knew about one cheater, but broadcast an announcement to the whole class--and 4 people came to me and confessed.
Cheating is a huge problem at Universities, actually--supposedly something like a third of student papers contain at least some improperly cited material--which for those of us that teach is a very scary proposition. I used to think my assignments were so unique that students couldn't plagiarize them, but I've long since stopped kidding myself.
As for the OP--throw the book at him. Other students are busting their asses, this guy wanted a free ride. Especially if he wants to go to grad school. No grad school will take him with this on his record, and that's as it should be.