Plagiarism
Hugo’s got a posting about plagiarism in one of his classes.
Mercifully, my own experiences with it have been few.
I always find it amazing that students think we teachers won’t figure
out that they’ve plagiarized. Usually, it’s pretty damn
obvious. I had one case where the student wrote two paragraphs in
barely standard, badly constructed prose, shifted for two paragraphs to
a Freudian psycho-sexual analysis way beyond anything presented in
class, in complicated prose, and then back to the student’s badly
mangled own work.
I don’t feel quite so bad about giving the F in that case. If
you’re stupid enough to submit an assignment as above, you probably
shouldn’t pass the class to begin with.
7 July 2004 at 12:03 am.
yeah well at least you can fail students when they plagarize, at columbia they give them a slap in the wrist and if you do it again you might get a D! I say fail them all. The best story was when a fellow grad student caught one of his students plagarizing cause he had copied from an article he had written! how stupid can these kiddies be?!
7 July 2004 at 12:04 am.
yeah well at least you can fail students when they plagarize, at columbia they give them a slap in the wrist and if you do it again you might get a D! I say fail them all. The best story was when a fellow grad student caught one of his students plagarizing cause he had copied from an article he had writen! how stupid can these kiddies be?!