“How To Lie About Submitting Safe Assign”

“How To Lie About Submitting Safe Assign”

That search string brought someone to my blog, and I thought it deserved comment, since presumably the person who searched for it is a student trying to avoid having their plagiarism or cheating detected.

It won’t work. If you say that SafeAssign didn’t work and e-mail the assignment to your professor, then your professor can manually upload it to SafeAssign.

If you don’t send an electronic copy in the hope that you’ll make it impossible to do just that, you’ll make the professor suspicious and he or she will Google phrases from your essay extensively. I did that this semester and to my dismay found that a student had purchased a rather poor essay from a site that sells them.

So, in short, you are going to get caught. It is only a matter of time. You’ll be expelled. And all because you decided to spend more time searching for ways to cheat the system than doing what you’re supposed to do at a college of university, namely learn.