Plagiarists and cheats

Ann Loseva , one of the BritishCouncil's new TeachingEnglish associates , has written a very touching post called I HATED THAT FELLOW (C) C.G. JUNG on her personal blog that is a reflection on cheating/plagiarism undertaken by students and the reaction of teachers have to this. It made me think of the times that I called out students for cheating or plagiarism and I thought I'd share something related here on my blog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cheating.JPG In denial and aggressive When I worked for a private university in Barcelona, I used to have zero tolerance for plagiarism and cheating. There was one short specialised course in particular that I taught for which I required a specific piece of writing that some students found difficult to do and which prompted some to copy and paste from articles they found on the Internet. I warned the students at the beginning of the course that if I considered plagiarism to be the ultimate sin on this course,