cheating?? huh??

“Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.”

There are an immense amount of question and answer books available at the moment. On a number of occasions in the past I have been set an essay question exactly as it appeared in one of the question and answer books that I delved into purely for revision purposes.

What to do?

Copy it and change the odd word here and there.

Have it in front of you but rephrase the whole thing.

Use it as a guide to signpost key points required to answer the question.

Follow the structure of the answer but use your own research.

Attempt to improve on the answer.

Have a go at the answer and then compare it later.

Ignore it.

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It would be foolish to assume that there is only one copy of the book that you have in existence and the writers, publishers and anyone who had anything to do with the book or knew about it died in a plane crash. Wouldn't it?