5 Kids Busted for plagiarizing

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez
Theoretically isn't everything plagarism?

Repost.

 

[Al Neri]

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez
Theoretically isn't everything plagarism?

Repost.

zing!

touchè (wrong e?)

 

[Bateluer]

Turnitin.com sucks. Every essay I write is between 10% and 15% plagiarized, despite being a fantasy short story written entirely by me.

 

[Steve]

I knew a guy who got kicked out of college for copying a buddy's paper, all he did was switch the first and last paragraphs.

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez
Theoretically isn't everything plagarism?

hahah yea. To me writing stupid papers were just plagarism using different words.

 

[AdamK47]

I think the OP set himself up for this.

 

[neutralizer]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Turnitin.com sucks. Every essay I write is between 10% and 15% plagiarized, despite being a fantasy short story written entirely by me.

I'd always fear I'd get caught for plagiarizing something that I wrote myself because turnitin.com sucks so much.

 

[TallBill]

No wonder they cheated. Thats a rough essay to write in 4th grade. Private school or not.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: Whisper

Originally posted by: mad0maxx
In High School probally suspended for the rest of the year...

In College you get expelled from the college forever or a long time!

Depends on the degree of the plagiarism. In college, from what I know, punishments generally range from simply receiving a zero on the assignment or in the course (especially if the teacher chooses not to report you), to academic probation, to suspension/expulsion for a certain amount of time.

However, if it's found that you pervasively and/or maliciously plagiarized on something like your thesis or dissertation, your degree will likely get yanked.

in college, at least, a lot of it depends on your major and how much the professor in question doesn't like you.

as an english lit major, plagurism was serious business... definitely something you could get expelled or kicked out of the department for. I'd imagine the same went for journalism or creative writing majors.

 

[V00DOO]

Wow, tough crowd.

 

[thraashman]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Wow, I was in my class teacher wants to talk to all students privatively we only got 9 kids in the class 5 kids got busted and there so stupid they all had the same paragraphs so thats how they found out. Our princicpal came in and said that we use www.turnitin.com to check for plagiarizing me and 2 other kids are in the green and 1 kid was not here to do the essay


BTW it was a Macbeath essay about fair is foul and foul is fair.

For a term paper on Macbeth in high school for the first paragraph I almost exactly quoted the first part of Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas since at one point the witches called Macbeth a wayward son. The teacher though it amusing and at least somewhat relevant, but too blatanta of plagiarism to allow.

 

[Syran]

Originally posted by: Fineghal
God thats an easy essay to begin with.

You want a fun essay? In depth comparison/contrast between Macbeth and Heart of Darkness.

That should drive them to cheat.

Heart of Darkness... I loathed that novella. Wrote my Senior (HS) Thesis on it, and ended up getting penalized for it being too long at 17 pages; and I could have written a lot more on it too. I thought it was funny that the cliff notes were longer then the book.

 

[Syran]

Originally posted by: thraashman

Originally posted by: thescreensavers
Wow, I was in my class teacher wants to talk to all students privatively we only got 9 kids in the class 5 kids got busted and there so stupid they all had the same paragraphs so thats how they found out. Our princicpal came in and said that we use www.turnitin.com to check for plagiarizing me and 2 other kids are in the green and 1 kid was not here to do the essay


BTW it was a Macbeath essay about fair is foul and foul is fair.

For a term paper on Macbeth in high school for the first paragraph I almost exactly quoted the first part of Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas since at one point the witches called Macbeth a wayward son. The teacher though it amusing and at least somewhat relevant, but too blatanta of plagiarism to allow.

Citing work is a great way to get around that.

 

[jdini76]

Originally posted by: mad0maxx
In High School probally suspended for the rest of the year...

In College you get expelled from the college forever or a long time!

High school you would probably just fail the class. They wouldn't suspend you for the year. That is crazy talk.

In college. Most likley kicked out or put on double secret probation. But once you are kicked out of college, thats it. There is no return. Unless you are equited for raping a stripper.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: yowolabi

Originally posted by: Tizyler
After assessing your writing skills, I get the feeling you all shared the same grade.

QFT.

Also, this has to either be a 5th grade class or a "slow" class for 5 of 9 people to hand in the same paragraph and think the teacher wouldn't notice.

Edit: Why would they even need to use a program to check, I doubt the papers were more than a couple of pages and the cheating should have been painfully obvious.

The policy at many high schools is to require everything be either turned-in through an online gateway like that, or for the teacher to submit it like that, even before the teacher reviews it.

Originally posted by: jdini76
High school you would probably just fail the class. They wouldn't suspend you for the year. That is crazy talk.

Fail the class? Perhaps the schools around here are more lenient, but the only punishment for plagiarism when I was in high school was a zero on the paper, and perhaps a day or two of in-school suspension. It didn't go on a transcript, either.

 

[krcat1]

I think that it is rather ridiculous to have an emphasis on "original research" at this level. Copying word for word entire sections of a work is one thing, but true research at this level should be reserved for special projects that are allocated special resources. Simply reports should be more about logic and critical thinking than trying to avoid copying material.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez
Theoretically isn't everything plagarism?

Repost.

zing!

touchè (wrong e?)

Yés.

 

[Howard]

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez

Originally posted by: loup garou

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez
Theoretically isn't everything plagarism?

Repost.

zing!

touchè (wrong e?)

Yés.

 

[mad0maxx]

At my college Augusta State University... you get caught once plagiarizing you are kicked out for a very long time! All the English professors here do not mess around and they all take it seriously...

Also my High School you get caught plagiarizing you get kicked out of school for the year and also on the other note get caught with ANY type of drug you instantly get a cop to escort you to jail and then book for court... no lie...

EDIT: I guess it is because I live in Georgia and they are near the bottom of the education system LoL

 

[DainBramaged]

Originally posted by: FallenHero
I bet they at least used sentences.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Don Rodriguez
Theoretically isn't everything plagarism?

no, not at all. you're confusing plaigarism with the addage that there are no new stories, just new ways to tell them. that first part isn't completely true either.

and certainly when it comes to literary analysis (what you have in a high school paper), there certainly are new potential ways to interpret texts. in high shcool though, students don't yet have the tools to produce a truly original critical text....so all of those essays tend to look the same. you know, BS 5-paragraph structure.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: jdini76

Originally posted by: mad0maxx
In High School probally suspended for the rest of the year...

In College you get expelled from the college forever or a long time!

High school you would probably just fail the class. They wouldn't suspend you for the year. That is crazy talk.

In college. Most likley kicked out or put on double secret probation. But once you are kicked out of college, thats it. There is no return. Unless you are equited for raping a stripper.

Yeah dude..it's called giving credit. I don't understand why kids feel they have to copy other peoples' work and pass it off as their own. it's prefectly acceptable to cite someone else's work; in fact, it's required so that you don't look an ass spouting unsupportable claims. if you had cited Kansas, and actually drew comparisons b/w the song and Macbeth throughout the paper, then it could have made for an interesting, and perhpas original high school essay.