Today’s word is inspired by a cheating incident we encountered today at work. A number of students were assigned an essay on a health-related topic, and most of them pillaged other writers’ work rather than writing down any thoughts of their own. This is a case of straight-forward plagiarism.
In my day, students knew how to cheat properly, which is to say they knew how to get away with it and minimize their chances of getting caught. These students’ efforts at plagiarism were pitiful and amateurish. They just copied and pasted directly from various websites without bothering to paraphrase anything, which is just plain stupid. They were practically begging to get caught.
Not only that, they also cheated off each other. One student actually copied and pasted another student’s copied and pasted off the internet essay. I think we need a new word or phrase to describe this phenomenon, like supercheating or supreme cheating.
Any ideas?
Random Misanthrope 
Lemming cheaters? Altthough that might be considered slightly slanderous to lemmings. Then they might sue, and the problem is if one lemming sues, then they ALL want to sue! 😉
It’s kind of like plagiarism piracy. One student copies someone else’s work and then shares their illegal obtained information with others.