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[YTMND]

It's fairly easy to expose students' weaknesses. Get one student you know who did the paper the right way and one person you are very sure didn't. Have them tell the class about their paper. Drill them equally after. The one that didn't do it right will crumble.

"Next time class, I might pick 2 different people or the same people. Make sure you understand your paper."

[Fat_Elvis]

http://www.plagium.com/

If I catch students plagiarising, I simply tell them that this is inappropriate in a Western context and they would be severely penalised for that at a university in an English speaking country, and I ask them to rewrite it. As most of the time my students are eventually aiming to study abroad, this is an effective deterrent.

[liveinkorea316]

Yeah, at my old uni, if proven, it would get you booted out.

Here in Korea, I would just give the student Zero. I teach in a uni so they are dramatic enough about their grades that losing 10 or 15 marks is a big deal.

And Korean students DO KNOW that plagarism is wrong. The only reason it seems prevalent is the marking practices of Korean professors. From what I hear, even where I teach now, Korean professors, unless it is grad school, do not even properly read the assignments of first or second years. So they plagarise away.

[chrisblank]

[PatrickGHBusan]