Alex Halavais: How to cheat good
Last post for tonight. Alex Halavais about cheating in your essays:
This is my Number 1 piece of advice, even if it is numbered eight. When you copy things from the web into Word, ignoring #3 above, don’t just “Edit > Paste” it into your document. When I am reading a document in black, Times New Roman, 12pt, and it suddenly changes to blue, Helvetica, 10pt (yes, really), I’m going to guess that something odd may be going on. This seems to happen in about 1% of student work turned in, and periodically makes me feel like becoming a hermit.
Hilarious to read — but honestly, it might give you ideas … [thanks to and via BoingBoing].