Talk:Plagiarism/@comment-82.45.191.208-20110227164346

As MSc alumni and current PhD student at LSE I really hope his PhD be revoked. We use a system, TurnItIn, which detects plagiarism automatically. The students are allowed at least three tries per submission. Each time the system will highlight the problematic passages and supposed sources of those. With the free use of the system comes the explicit, repeated, warning that if you submit your work and it is detected by the system, well, you know what happens. You'll have no excuses. I was freaking out at the though that TurnItIn could highlight passages as plagiarised when I knew I didn't for a single word. Of course it didn't highlight any passages. One can hardly finish in the usual 4 year limit and it's common to pass over the deadline. So he made his research in 4 years while travelling and networking around the world... come on. I feel bad for the damage in reputation that me and the rest of the research students will suffer. We work hard and honestly. At least I am not in that Dept.