[ale] LaTeX question?

[James Sumners]

True, but in other disciplines it probably isn't so easy to catch. I
imagine you have to read it for yourself to find the abuse.

On Dec 11, 2007 12:34 AM, JK <jknapka at kneuro.net> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
>
> > A quick search returns this -- http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html
> >
> > I would be loathe to do it, though. LaTeX and Word serve two entirely
> > different purposes. Word is for those who don't know any better, and
> > LaTeX is for when it needs to be done right. It seems to me that if
> > you are working on a subject where LaTeX is the most appropriate tool,
> > then your instructor would accept a PDF, or even the TeX file. But if
> > the instructor is feeding the work through some sort of plagiarism
> > checker, then it's likely that the subject is english or literature.
>
> Nah, plagiarism is a problem in other disciplines, too. My GF
> teaches anthro and education classes (she's an anthropologist,
> but also teaches teacher certification), and catches a couple of
> plagiarists every semester.  She showed me a paper in which one
> of her students  had just copied and pasted a bunch of statistics
> off of a web page without crediting the original researchers :-/
>
> -- JK
>
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