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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No HS student does perfect work in their first draft.  We just caught a kid that way (among other obvious clues like timing to do it, etc.).  To produce highly polished text requires multiple drafts, edits, corrections, etc.

We challenged this kid to show us his working drafts since he claimed he did the work elsewhere.  He didn't because he couldn't.

Next year, I expect our school to have a formal policy stating that all work will be done in the same document with the editing history available to the instructor.

It's a hard barrier for cheaters to get around.[/quote]

You'd be shocked how many students can bypass this. It's really only hard for first timers.[/quote]

Cutting and pasting sections of text one at a time won't fool anyone.  What else is there if you are importing a perfect document into what should be a series of drafts with imperfections?[/quote]

Why wouldn’t they just type it? Seems very easy to workaround. [/quote]

Because then it's all done in one draft.  No one does a perfect product in one draft.  When a teacher can look at every single revision, they see the evolution of the work with edits and changes.

If each version has 10% of a perfect draft added each time, that's also obvious.

Without those, it's unlikely to be genuine.[/quote]

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