
Originally Posted by
Valcherion
We had an interesting discussion involving Stephanie Meyer - in a history class, of all places - a couple of years back. How it went:
Tutor: So, basically, which of these involve plagiarism?
-class lists off the three examples, then agrees to say all of them are-
Tutor: Right; that's really good, actually, because the third one was plagiarism even with the footnotes, since the writer of the essay basically took the passage, used a thesaurus to change some of the words, and claimed it as their own idea. Most people were tripped up by that.
Random classmate: So we basically just saw Stephanie Meyer write a history essay.