Infomancy n. 1.The field of magic related to the conjuring of information from the chaos of the universe. 2.The collection of terms, queries, and actions related to the retrieval of information from arcane sources.

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Plagiarism To the Penultimate!

May 18th, 2006 by Christopher Harris

Because no matter how off the wall some of these suggestions/stories may sound, I am sure some poor teacher out there can top them!

Alex Halavais - sadly no longer of the University at Buffalo and who, though he is the kind soul who runs schoolof.info, I have never had a chance to meet – offers some suggestion on “How to cheat good.” The top tip, though not the penultimate tip in a list of only 8, for those students who are just not feeling the whole work thing:

8. Edit > Paste Special > Unformatted Text
This is my Number 1 piece of advice, even if it is numbered eight. When you copy things from the web into Word, ignoring #3 above, don’t just “Edit > Paste” it into your document. When I am reading a document in black, Times New Roman, 12pt, and it suddenly changes to blue, Helvetica, 10pt (yes, really), I’m going to guess that something odd may be going on. This seems to happen in about 1% of student work turned in, and periodically makes me feel like becoming a hermit. [Halavais]

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2 Responses to “Plagiarism To the Penultimate!”

  1. anon Says:
    June 15th, 2006 at 4:38 pm

    That’s not what penultimate means. See Alex Halavais’s tip # 5

  2. Christopher Harris Says:
    June 15th, 2006 at 10:29 pm

    That’s why the quoted tip is not the penultimate in a list of 8 but would be in a list of 9. The use of penultimate in the title of the post is mostly sarcastic as per tip #5.