Reply To: Plagiarism in a CE course

The chance that they looked at other sources and accumulated material isn’t so much a deal breaker but attempting to pass off word for word is pretty amazing. Couldn’t they find anything a little more obscure than Wikipedia? That’s a bad precedent not only for the one course but anything else they might also offer becomes suspect. Even companies looking to fill their blogs to keep their readers interested will typically say in advertisements that writers must send original writing.