I see some famous writer (who I haven't read) and probably from HongKong,
was taken to task by a reviewer, for plagiarising 'a few phrases' from
other sources.
The article was in SCMP, the Hong Kong paper. If anyone wants to read it,
I'll seach for it...maybe the 3-10th Nov.
>i've told students in the past that
homework assignments at school, which are given under the assumption that
practice-yields-progress and to give Ts content-irrelevant samples to
>assess, tend to be fairly identical from school to school and class to
>class.
One answer is to give writing topics which are un-plagiarizable..
"Go to Beijing North Railway Station. Sit for 10 minutes. Write your
impressions." (BNRS was a derelict dump at the time, but historical,1906)
"Describe the worst toilet you remember." (Dave Barry on the Great Wall is
the lead-in to this)
etc.
It's pretty easy, especially if you've non-English majors :-)
Dave Nevin
