Solving the Problem of Collegiate Plagiarism

The A.M.A. and Boston Cream Pie’d Plagiarism

A recent study pertaining to medical students discovered that 5% of the students essay exams were plagiarized. Some have suggested that select essay exams be discontinued from collegiate testing because of the ease with which elite college students may rip off Internet authors. Yet such a panic attack reaction isn’t needed, and America does want to have literate college alumni.

Next time a college paper on how one’s ancestors arrived in America begins with ‘four score and twenty years ago, my forefather and foremother stepped forth upon this continent to conceive a new life” etc a busy college professors need not just wonder if that one paper’s content doesn’t sound a little familiar. Instead he or she (not necessarily in that order) can upload a digitalized paper to the Universal Internet Plagiarism Check service.com

Whenever I write a new essay for publication at Triond.com a little time passes while they check to see if it has been published anywhere else on the Internet. Even if I published it myself first somewhere such as BestInternetwriters.com, Triond.com will let me know where it was published and reject it for being previously published. Such a service should be available for colleges routinely to use on all graduate and undergraduate essays, and could be for a very low cost per paper if they were all digitalized. Each college paper plagiarized should be caught for cheating and rejected like a body builder in competition using steroids and human growth hormones or an Olympic swimmer having stem cell modifications to grow webbed feet and hands.

While the Internet has made plagiarism easy, it has also made revealing plagiarism easy. The American Medical Association can profit from instant plagiarism check services probably available on line. I suppose that even a Google search for a string of words enclosed in quotes could turn up some plagiarized material for free.

Integrity can return to college classrooms if instant plagiarism checks become a routine part of undergraduate work. Students that write mediocre papers in comparison to those that plagiarize brilliant yet obscure philosophy papers should not be penalized for making a good effort that suffers in comparison to the unfairly copied paper on The One such as Plotinus described in The Enneads by The Eskimo Of the Unknown Ice Flow (if such an authored paper existed).

Nearly two decade ago I wrote a science fiction short story named Alaska Mag Accelerator (A.M.A.) that was about electro-magnetic accelerated transport modules across continents in tubes, it had no relationship to the Medical Society acronym, and such coincidences turn can turn up in essays too. Good essay examination software can produce a quality examination sufficient to determine if a paper is just coincidentally like another or actual plagiarism, for there are many levels of literary analysis available today.

If the United States is to graduate honest and capable college graduates it should have more plagiarism testing—even routine testing, just as college athletics should have far more doping tests. Society must know who the real meat-heads are as well as develop those with inadequate literary composition capabilities through remedial study into righteous if not radical writers with a discursive style that reaches effective if not persuasive levels of ink or crystal display, light emitting diode or electron language construction.