Who, Me?

How do I know that you plagiarized? (circle one):

1. Because another student turned in the same assignment with the exact same wording.

2. Because I found this exact sentence on a website called cheatonyourhomework.com

3. Because you copied and pasted directly from the internet and didn't even bother to change the...

a) font
b) text color
c) text size
d) margins
e) weird spaces that emerge when you take something formatted to fit in a column and paste it into a document

...in order to match the text of the rest of the assignment, you lazy cheating fool.

4. Because I've been reading your work all semester and I don't believe that you came up with this sentence by yourself:

The discourse and visual imagery of Orientalism is laced with notions of power and superiority, formulated initially to facilitate a colonizing mission on the part of the West and perpetuated through a wide variety of discourses and policies.*

Hey, I can use Google too.

Seriously, do you think I am a total moron?

*Shockingly, found here and not originating in one of my students' heads