Plagiarism isn’t limited to manuscripts detected on turnitin.com software; it also manifests in essays in which the students received “help” from tutors, friends, and relatives so that while their in-class essays show rudimentary literacy or, worse, severe diction, predication and verb errors, their typed essays miraculously render the elevated and shimmering prose style of Vladimir Nabokov.
In fact, as students become more savvy about the plagiarism software, they're resorting to getting "help" as described above. Such is the cat and mouse game that defines a lot of what I do these days.
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