cliffesk

I regularly spot the odd sentence/quote which has been lifted from somewhere else. If it is more than that, I warn the student. Once I had a whole dissertation which had full paragraphs copied from elsewhere. That student was disciplined by the university and ended up having to re-take the year.

This is so much more lenient than America.. If you get caught plagiarizing in the slightest (whether in a homework assignment, a lab report, a paper), you'll receive an F in the course, a mark on your transcript that you were caught plagiarizing, followed by disciplinary action from the university.