A controversial blog post from an NYU Stern School professor has been circulating. The original has been removed but it is available here. From reading it, I can’t understand why the original was taken down. It is a solid tale and, in the end, the cheaters were caught.
Let me recap the story. Professor offers assignment to class that is the same as previous years. This is the first year the Professor has had easy access to Turnitin; a copying detection tool which is extremely effective. This is also the first year the Professor has tenure (but I think that is secondary). The Professor first notices lots of students just coping and pasting from the Internet (direct plagiarism). He decides to admonish rather than punish. Then he discovers copying of past assignments. Much hilarity ensues as the offenders try to talk themselves out of it (using the old…
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