Two Brain Cells :: UCAS plagiarism?

I take issue with the idea that writing “a fascination for how the human body works” in your UCAS personal statement is proof of plagiarism. It’s exactly the kind of fake fawning enthusiasm they expect you to spew up, expressed in your garden-variety forced semi-formal writing style. Unimaginative, perhaps, but it doesn’t make it copying.

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Steve

I agree, to copy one sentence is not cheating. The level of matching used required that a minimum of 3 sentences must match a known source. So “a fascination for how the human body works” was only one sentence and alone would not have indicated plagiarism. The fact is that the applicant(s) then went on to copy another 2 sentences from the same published source.

March 12th, 2007 3:21 pm

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