Do students really get by with buying term papers online, or do they get busted by thier professors.?
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Answered by Professor X
I'm a professor who has no trouble spotting purchased or plagiarized papers. Our university even has software that one can use to scan suspicious papers and determine if they were plagiarized from an online site. I rarely have to use it, however, since I can easily determine on my own whether a paper is a particular student's original work. I've been teaching for almost a decade now, and identifying a paper with "academic dishonesty problems" is ridiculously easy. I've "busted" my share of students, and in accordance with my university's policy, some of them were expelled. All of them received a failing grade for the courses in which they cheated, and their transcripts were marked with the notation "failed for reasons of academic dishonesty."
I'm a professor who has no trouble spotting purchased or plagiarized papers. Our university even has software that one can use to scan suspicious papers and determine if they were plagiarized from an online site. I rarely have to use it, however, since I can easily determine on my own whether a paper is a particular student's original work. I've been teaching for almost a decade now, and identifying a paper with "academic dishonesty problems" is ridiculously easy. I've "busted" my share of students, and in accordance with my university's policy, some of them were expelled. All of them received a failing grade for the courses in which they cheated, and their transcripts were marked with the notation "failed for reasons of academic dishonesty."
