If someone would be so kind as to find me a wee little essay online that’d be greatly appreciated.
It’s called “Defending Against the Indefensible” by Neil Postman. It’s about 3 pages long.
I read it a while back and it had some good stuff in it, but I can’t find the copy I had and have been trying to find an online version. No luck so far, so I was hoping someone here could help me out.
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Wonderful. Thankyou everyone for your replies, it means a great deal to me.
I love the General Forum. Such a devoted and caring buncha' kids.
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you should have posted this in cafe, the adults there would have replied with fruity smilies :D
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You have to register on the site to access, elsewhere it is for sale.
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phatti is this your homework we are helping you with?
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i’m on summer break you old tot. 
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umer thanks pal 
5abi - yea that would’ve helped 
nice sig. 
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Use Google before asking dumb question.
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^ hey :( didnt you read the first post? i said i've been searching for it!
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You know that plagiarism is a serious offence right. :nono:
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I’m not plagerizing!
Can’t an innocent highschool student read a wonderful essay by a great writer without being accused of trying to steal their work?! 
Ok here’s the real story…
School’s about to start and I was picking up all my old essays about writing (mostly George Orwell stuff), and I remember this essay as one that stood out and I was planning on using quotes from it for papers this school year.
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I tried registering and it says the server thingy is down.
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plagiarising. kids and their spelling!
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Yea see, this is one of the reasons we plagiarize.
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Only if you get caught…
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THEY. I meant "this is one of the reasons THEY plagiarize." ahem
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True Lajjo ... there's an art to plagiarism which I mastered during studies in the humanities. There's no other way you can write a 15 pager in one night. phati, get back to me for tips when you're about to go to uni.
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oh haha believe me, you will.
See, you old folks had it easy back then, you just handwrite a paper with a feather and ink on some sheepskin and turn it in.
Well now they make us type our papers and email them to the teacher and finally, Turnitin.com. (oh the horror). We submit our papers to this website and it checks each and every sentence for plagiarism throughout the entire internet. If something does match up and it’s not quoted, you’re in deep poopy.
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wow do they really do that with each paper.
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Well yes there are plenty of loopholes which any other average high school internet geek like myself would know about.
Anti-study.com, Anti-essays.com, etc.
They’re all such beautiful places to be on a starry night when you’re trapped in your bedroom trying to write an argumentative essay with writer’s block. Do I plagiarize? Hell no, I just go skim through the given essays to steal topics/arguments I can write about, as well as the reasoning points :D.
The thing about finding plagiarism on the internet is to make sure it’s not word for word because that’s how turnitin.com searches. If you just copy the basics, it’s not really plagiarism, so you can be guilt-free and rest happily.
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Well not really each paper. Mostly just the big essays that are worth lots of points and the research papers and stuff. Descriptive essays can’t be plagiarized anyways because our teacher would pick the most random things to write about like once we had to write a 3-page paper on a blade of grass. The whole thing had to be a metaphor. (extended metaphor) 