I've just started grading midterms, and came across my first plagiarism case. Here's a hint for would-be plagiarizers: if you're going to lift several paragraphs from a professional philosopher, you should either change some of the words around, or at least write grammatically in the paragraphs preceding your plagiary. It's really f-ing hard to miss the transition from stilted ungrammatical college freshman prose to hypercomplex academic prose.
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