At 10:10 AM 11/30/99 -0600, you wrote:
> She is obviously going to have to rewrite this. But what intrigues me is
>the question of what she believed her task was. What is it in her past
>educational experience that made her think that this might be an acceptable
>response to the assignment? (she did this twice on the assessment, by the
>way). It's a remarkable confusion, and I don't think it's an accident. I
>suspect that she was (unintentionally) taught this by something in her
>earlier writing instruction, and I'd love to know what.
There is one study (Dant, 1986) that reports that about 16% of college students
surveyed claim to have been instructed in high school that, when writing
reports, it is OK to simply copy material word for word from the original.
Dant, D. R. (1986). Plagiarism in High School: A survey. English Journal,
LLXXV (2), 81-84.
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