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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sometimes it does happen naturally. When I was in college, I got called to see the professor. It was an art history class, and we'd been asked to write a paper about any painting in the university museum. I had gone to the library and found one article about the painting.

Because it was pre-internet and because I was saving this for the night before, I didn't go any further. Around 2 am, I was tired and just started making up any artsy-fartsy BS I could about the painting ("the juxtaposition of the three heads implies the Holy Trinity and the artist's internal struggle with God...."). I had been kind of embarrassed to turn it in because I thought it was ridiculous and over the top.

I get to the professor's office and he says, "be careful, you're either going to get an A or you're going to fail the course. Did you read any articles about this painting?" "Yes, the one I cited. I didn't have time to go looking for anything else." So he pulls out another article and says "so you didn't see this one?" "Nope."

So I read it. It was almost identical to my paper, and looked like what would happen if you were trying to plagiarize a paper and paraphrase it and switch a couple of paragraphs around. I was horrified, and I blurted out, "no, I really never saw it and I just put down whatever BS I could think of about the painting!" He laughed, and I got the A. But if he'd been a hardass or just crotchety, who knows. [/quote]

I had the same problem writing a college term paper. I had just come up with some sort of hook to tie the thing together, and in looking for sources to beef up the introduction found a book doing the exactly the thing I had wanted to do. It was the middle of the day so I literally went to my professors office and showed him the situation (it was during finals week so I didn't have time to come up with a new idea). He was a really chill guy, and I had completely different citations for the same information, so he ended up giving me credit for it. [/quote]

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