On 2 Jun 2010, at 13:30, Rui Sousa-Silva wrote:
> One final, tricky question: if the essay has been 'purchased', would it still need to be judged as plagiarism? :)
Plagiarism, certainly in the English speaking world, is usually defined in terms of "passing off someone else's work as your own". So an essay written by someone else is certainly doing that :-)
I do have a question for Catherine though - what are the grounds for suspecting the essay is plagiarised? is the work very significantly better from anything else the student has produced? so much so that it can't be explained in terms of hard work and / or sudden shifts in understanding?
Diane
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