Helpful Tip #1: If your vocabulary is not up to par with Sparknotes, it may give you away. I will automatically Google phrases like “the connection between songbirds and innocents is made explicitly” and “the moral imperative to protect the vulnerable” because you don’t talk like that. Sorry. You just don’t.
Helpful Tip #2:Do not confuse the characters Boo Radley (gentle, reclusive neighbor who saves Jem and Scout’s lives) and Bob Ewell (evil, drunken, racist white trash who beats his daughter). This leads to problematic sentences such as, “Tom Robinson and Bob Radley are mockingbirds. Bob Radley’s guilt is also assumed without evidence. Even though Bob Radley is an alcoholic and a burden to society, he is believed to be innocent simply because of the color of his skin.”
Helpful Tip #3:If you are going to plagiarize, go ahead and just take it word for word. The ol’ copy and paste should do the trick. Don’t try to mess with the sentences, because then your own extreme difficulties with grammar are confounded with the plagiarism, leading to trainwrecks such as, “Recluses who never set foot outside his house Boo dominates the imaginations of Jim and Scout and everything at an opportune moment to save the children an intelligent child emotionally damaged by his cruel father Boo provide and example of the threat that evil poses to innocent and goodness.”
Hope you find these tips handy! Good luck with your plagiarism!
Thanks for the tips! I’ll remember them if I decide to write a PhD thesis.
I especially liked the sentence in tip #3.
Haha this made me smile…how often do you google stuff that students submit?? Remember when Ms. Sleeth made us make a quotation book, and turned it into a TKAM assignment by making us stick, like, five quotations in there (that we put on the first page and promptly ripped out after the assignment was done)? Good times….
I want to be a mockingbird!
I find that final sentence under tip #3 quite breathtaking!