What is the students' jargon or abbreviation for assignments made up of "only" data downloaded from the internet in English? (If it exists)
Japanese students call a report and essay made up by only putting data downloaded from the Internet e.g. passages from Wikipedia put together without including their own thoughts or creative ideas, a “コピペ-Kopipe,” which is pronounced as 'kopipay.'
It is a compound of ‘copied + pasted + paper’. Incidentally ‘copy ,’ ‘paste,’ and ‘paper’ are all adapted to Japanese language, and pronounced as ‘kopi-i, ‘paisuto, and ‘paypah’.
To me 'Kopipe' is akin to plagiarism, but it doesn’t have the same criminal overtone as plagiarism itself. It seems to be just a labor-saving editing or blending job for students.
While riding on the train, I've overheard students say to each other:
“I submitted a report in time by ‘kopipeing’ articles”
innocently, as if they were playing a game.
Is there a similar student jargon or abbreviation for ‘Kopipe’ in English?
Solution 1:
There is no special noun for that in English, but 'to copy' or 'to copy-paste' works, but is not jargon at all, it works for anything, whether plagiarized or reworked.
Plagiarizing from electronic articles is certainly a recognized phenomenon in English speaking cultures, but there is no noun, no special term for that class of objects.
One could refer to the situation in other ways, like
Did you get that off the internet?
I copy-pasted my paper from my friend.
He cobbled together his paper from wikipedia articles.
There are related terms: 'paper mill' where one can purchase a paper written by someone else on contract (the paper is said to be 'ghostwritten'). But there is no term for when one does the cut and paste onesself.
Solution 2:
The expression I've heard is "copypasta", meaning anything put together with nothing but cutting and pasting. The suggestion is that the result would be disorganized as a plate of spaghetti.
Sadly, there is no verb (as far as I know) for creating copypasta or for a person engaged in that activity.