Young Duane’s writi
ng endeavor pushed the envelope and went well beyond the norm in the art of plagiarism. Here are some of the reasons why the committee had an easy time selecting this year’s winner:The paper was one month late. Even after he was told that his paper would not be accepted, he persevered and turned it in anyway, fully expecting to get full credit because, “I turned in my work”.
It was a verbatim download from Wikipedia. He didn’t even bother to cut-and-paste.
It still contained every hyperlink embedded in the original Wikipedia article.
But the pièce de résistance was the fact that Duane left the caption of the illustration to the original article in his paper. No photo, just the caption!
Thank you Duane. You make teaching exciting and fun!
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Duane Daryl Pigwhistle ???
Isn’t Mr. Pigwhisle’s father a camp counselor here at Nickleby???
What is that saying about lemons not falling far from the tree???
Or maybe a more appropriate motto might be “When life gives you apples… make hard cider…….”
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