Wednesday, 12 June 2019

Proofreading or plagiarism?



Read more in THE- Anna McKie, June 12, 2019.

"When does proofreading become plagiarism? Experts say rules are too unclear in light of rise of online commercial checking services...Getting someone else to write an essay is clearly cheating, but what if a student has another person proofread their work? Pointing out a missed comma seems fairly innocent, but what if the proofreader rewrote whole sentences or even paragraphs? And what if the student had paid them to do so?"


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