I thought we might do a series of guides for newbies to the game. This first guide is to arguably the most useful skill in your years in antiU.
It is simply inefficient and a waste of human resource to write reports and codes from scratch. The proper way to do things is to get homework from seniors who have gotten theirs from their seniors.
Once you have their homework, what you need to do is the following:
Step 1: Don’t be tempted to modify the layout and the sentence structures a little and hand that up. That’s the surest way to get caught.
Step 2: Look through the work, get a feel for it and see if you want to omit certain parts, or want to add some stuff.
Step 3: If you have another piece of work from another person, your job is 50% easier. Cut and paste parts of both works till it resembles a new piece of work. Don’t worry if it’s raw and looks like you physically cut out the parts and pasted them together with glue.
Step 4: Start highlighting/underlining/bracketing the key points of each sentence. If you’re extra geeky you can write them out in point form.
Step 5: Rearrange the points as you like and write them into sentences.
Step 6: If it’s a 2 man collaboration, get the other guy to re-deplagiarise it.
I’m sure there are more tips I’ve picked up over the years but i can’t recall them now.
