Plaigarism
posted 2005/12/19 at 23:41
posted 2005/12/19 at 23:41
I'm just finishing up my students' final portfolios and I caught one instance of gross plaigarism. This student didn't just lift a section from somewhere and insert it into the paper, but copied the whole thing, and the worst part was it took me all of about ten seconds to Google the paper.
I try not to take my teaching failures too personally, but plaigarism is something I take very seriously. How can anyone think that s/he can just copy-and-paste something from the Internet and expect to receive the same rewards as the students who actually worked on their papers? Seriously, by the point you get to college shouldn't you just instinctually know that doing stuff like that is just wrong? Sigh.
On the plus side, I found a twenty-dollar bill on the sidewalk outside Books-A-Million when I went there earlier tonight. Yay or something.
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