It is unsual that a college instructor would have his class plagiarize a paper as 10% of the final grade. Lucky for us, we were given the opportunity to do so. Well, not really lucky. It was not very pleasing to do such thing. On the other hand, it was quite an interesting experience with a lesson learned. Whoever thinks that plagiarizing was easy is definitely wrong. I found this experience to be quite complicated. The difficulty of this project was trying to blend in the voice of yourself and at the same time the voice you're plagiarizing to make them both sound the same.
The tricky part of the experience was trying to plagiarize and fool your classmates of what was and was not plagiarize. I was hard for me to weave in the words of another into mine to sound like me. Who ever read my paper, well, you definitely know that I'm not a good plagiarizer. I would be caught within the first couple sentences. That's why I don't plagiarize.
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I agree whole heartily. It was our luck that Scott allowed us to write this paper. Also the tricky and challenging part was to integrate our voice and the writer's voice into one collective thought. Plagiarism was harder than I have thought, because integrating the writing styles of the writer and mine came into conflict sometimes.
I definitely agree with you on the difficulty of successfully plagiarizing a paper. I think the ease of plagiarizing comes down to what you're writing and how seamlessly you want to make it. As Patrick demonstrated, ancient creative writing from Harper's Magazine is nearly impossible to trace (in this academic setting; try pulling it off in the literary world of publishing and I guarantee somebody would nail you within weeks). What makes me wonder is how we would have done if we had not been informed about the nature of the papers. Had the course been designed so that only two or three people were told to plagiarize an assignment, and we switched every time without knowing when the plagiarized papers would be turned in, would we catch them?
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