This almost makes me wish students would just e-mail the fake “corrupted” files that another website offers. (How can they call it “0 percent plagiarism”? Isn’t the fact that the student is submitting a paper they did not write changing that to at least 50% plagiarism? I mean, it’s 0% when the paper is offered but 100% on the part of the student when they hand it in, claiming it’s their own work, and the average of those two numbers is 50%, no?)

I admit to being a joyless harridan about this sort of thing but I had a student who REPEATED my class and who plagiarized again the second time he took it. The only thing he said to me after the second was, “I didn’t think you’d check.” Um, yeah. That might be part of why you’re retaking the class?