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Judging by your sentence, I would think a teacher could know if you had cheated by certain 'tells'. For instance, you spelled 'their' wrong and the way you have written 'custom-written' is also wrong. If your work is too good, you're going to get caught.

2006-12-27 12:22:30 · answer #1 · answered by balderarrow 5 · 0 0

If by cheating you mean copying someone else's work, then yes. And you need to learn that not everything can be bought.

As others have said, there are ways of detecting plagiarism (ie. using someone else's ideas as your own without acknowledgement). Here are just a few:
- Firstly, a teacher is likely to know the most common sources of information, probably those used by 'your' writer, too.
- Second, try Google. You'd be surprised at how easy it is to find sections of other people's essays on the web...
- Thirdly, there is software which (like Google) compares one text with another.

Next, as others have said, style. If your usual standard is badly structured, poorly spelled and lacking in facts or logic, then suddenly you produce a 'perfect' piece, believe it or not it will be noticed.

Third, and most important, once a cheat, always a cheat. Don't let your reputation suffer, don't get zero by being caught. You are not only deceiving others, you are deceiving yourself.

Although this is going beyond your question, if you need help with an assignment, it's best to go to the teacher concerned and say so - and the sooner the better. Their first answer will most likely be to go and re-read your notes and the relevant texts / books which cover the subject. If it's some while since you covered the subject, simple revision can help jog your memory. Once you have something, try brainstorming and linking ideas / facts together.

Asking for help is not a sign of weakness but of honesty and, believe it or not, teachers don't like giving bad grades.

2006-12-27 09:26:15 · answer #2 · answered by richard b 1 · 0 0

Colleges and some high schools have computer programs which can identify certain phrases and duplicate content from other students - so the answer is yes there is a possibility of that . Especially when the student has not exibited that particular pattern to do well on papers in the past. How well do you know the resouces for the material you have written. It would not take a CSI investigator to figure out a cheater.

2006-12-27 08:45:48 · answer #3 · answered by john f 2 · 0 0

Writing styles are almost like fingerprints. They are very unique and readily identifiable. For example, if you had a piece of coursework written for you and turned it in, your teacher would know from previous class work, that you didn't know the difference between 'there' and 'their' and that you didn't write your modifiers correctly (customed instead of custom). There are several other identifiers in that one sentence that would lead me to question work turned in in your name, but done by someone else.
The other factor is that people who write coursework for profit aren't above re-selling the work they have done, to get a better return on it, but it has actually happened that they sold it to four people in the same university class. Needless to say, the prof realized something was up when he got four identical papers.

2006-12-27 11:17:33 · answer #4 · answered by old lady 7 · 0 0

Actually yes. My Step-Father is a retired Professor and has had 17 students expelled for cheating on their assignments. They always used somebody elses work and started re-wording it or changing it around just a little. But like an architect, writers build their reports the same way almost everytime or in a similar fashion. A good professor knows this and will use it to discredit the students in question. Of those 17 students, 16 still talk to him and apologized on multiple occassions.

2006-12-27 08:44:50 · answer #5 · answered by raiderking69 5 · 1 0

I have been teaching for 35 years at the college level. I can almost always identify plagiarism instantly because I actually get to know my students. Style is highly recognizable to the eager and caring teacher. Also, if you used there as you did there in the question and then I received a flawless piece of work from you, I would know almost instantly.

2006-12-27 08:42:38 · answer #6 · answered by Tom 2 · 2 0

Yes, especially if the work doesn't seem like it matches the student's previous work. Teachers always can find clever ways to work around this. For example, the teacher may take up the work and ask each student to write a short summary of their work to be graded. It's best to do your own work.

2006-12-27 08:41:50 · answer #7 · answered by Miss D 7 · 0 0

Yes. As some of the other posters said, after a teacher/professor is accustomed to your writing style, they can see whether it is your writing or not.

If your papers go from a 12grade to a Ph.D. level, they know that something is afoot.

2006-12-27 08:44:32 · answer #8 · answered by cleanguy4cleanfun 3 · 1 0

Yes-teachers usually know. If it wasn't written by you then teachers will know...especially if you have to submit it into a plagiarism system...good luck!

2006-12-27 08:41:12 · answer #9 · answered by curious! 2 · 0 0

They might suspect you didn't write it yourself, even if it doesn't match any other papers. They can ask you to redo it or may try to get you to explain further - and they will have a solid case for it if it's that much better than your previous work.

2006-12-27 08:40:41 · answer #10 · answered by eri 7 · 0 0

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