<p>One of my friends got caught using yahoo answers on a question that was worth 5 points on a assignment. It was his first time ever doing something like that. A academic referral was filed and it now might be told on his college application. Is this a form of plagiarism or has this been taken to far?</p>
<p>^bump</p>
<p>10 char</p>
<p>He does not have to disclose this action and the school will not be able to disclose the action.</p>
<p>Plagiarism is using someone else’s work and presenting it as your own, so yeah, it fits the definition. It’s cheating.</p>
<p>Whether or not it shows up on your friend’s transcript, I hope he/she has learned the lesson.</p>
<p>Of course. She was copying someone else’s work. I don’t see how they didn’t know it was plagiarism?</p>
<p>how did the teacher know who it was using yahoo answers??</p>
<p>I think copying word for word 3 sentences.</p>
<p>I would have busted out the “Infinite Monkey Theorem” which states that “a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare.”</p>
<p>BTW: Wikepedia actually has a scientific proof drawn out for this theory… dont know if its accurate, but it looks all kinds of scientific and stuff</p>
<p>[Infinite</a> monkey theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem]Infinite”>Infinite monkey theorem - Wikipedia)</p>
<p>Plagiarism is copying someone else’s work without mentioning the source and presenting it as your own. Using Yahoo to gain information is fine (although often unreliable); using it to copy actual sentences or paragraphs and pass them off as if they are your own is plagiarism. Students get caught because all a grader has to do these days is run an internet google search to see if something in a paper is matched on-line.</p>
<p>Your friend should say HE wrote the yahoo answer. :P</p>
<p>^ ! perfect! 10xhar</p>