"I used to have to sign all my work with the pledge "I have neither given nor received help on this work."

HA! I never had to sign my work...anybody with a half a brain could tell if I plagiarized anything, I plagiarized the town drunk.

When I took English 101 in college we were required to write a 250 word theme paper once a week. Misspell one word...grade was a "B"...misspell two words...grade was a "C"...three="D"...4="F". My first tome, I misspelled "Lincoln"...twenty three(23) times. That didn't include other words that went down in misspell hell. My spelling was so bad I had trouble finding them in the dictionary.

Took me 4 attempts to pass that class. Oddly, and probably having nothing to do with anything, I failed the first three times with female instructors. The fourth attempt male instructor...pass.

When I moved on to English 102...first attempt, female instructor=fail...second attempt, female instructor=fail...third attempt, male instructor=pass.

For the remainder of my four English courses I sought out male instructors and floated on through. Who knows?