this may or may not be of any interest to others here. it may not appear to be about dance, but i know that when i was teaching dance history and appreciation, there were students who would hand in papers, either partly or wholly printed off internet sites - at that stage i didn't know a lot about how to recognise this, but some were so blatant any idiot would have known!<P>anyway, these days there are (developing) ways to combat this problem, as this article describes....<BR> <A HREF="http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=15plagiarize.h20" TARGET=_blank>http://www.edweek.org/ew/ewstory.cfm?slug=15plagiarize.h20</A>

Damn! Looks like I'll have to write that essay myself after all.

Just for the heck of it - one day I typed my screen name ORZAK into Google and voila!! an essay of mine came up and a couple of my poems - I was REALLY surprised. Under Basheva some of my ballet posts have come up, too.

that's RIGHT, stuart!