@Nick: When writing academic papers, it’s usually difficult to tell the difference between different authors. The basic structure and vocab is the same throughout and most teachers seriously can’t tell stuff like that.

And depending on the major, it might not necessarily affect his life after school. Example: Geographic Information Science major (land surveying) – you don’t need to write papers. The papers you need to write for basic English and Psych classes the college requires won’t affect anything you actually do in the real world. Even a psych major who writes a crapload of papers during college doesn’t always have to write anything once in the job force. If you’re doing research, then yes, but just being a basic counselor or human resource manager means no academic writing.