SuburbanAdventure

As part of a group presentation for Act Sci 3596 I volunteered to stitch together the sections of the report my group was to turn in from the constituent parts thinking “they’re seniors, how bad could their writing be?”
Things I encountered-
Someone cited the same reference 18 times in the span of 1/2 of a page.  The source document was 2 pages long.
In an effort to get unbiased information one person cited health facts about mesothelioma from a personal injury lawyer’s web page
One person referenced a source with the only citation information being “website”
One person referenced a source with the only citation information being “insurance”
A group member used the word “as” 11 times in a single short paragraph
A group member in a fantastic display of plagiarism had a sentence which read “we at the Insurance Information Institute” despite the paper to be from our point of view.
I sat down to start stitching at 6:00 PM thinking 3 hours would be sufficient.  I finished the paper at 5:38 AM the next day without having gone to bed.  I prefer to think that I simply finished the paper at 17:38 PM, Sunday.  It was kind of like dealing with the norovirus but the vomiting was grammatical and figurative rather than omnipresent and literal.