Monday, December 22, 2008

More fun with students

A student turned a paper in that was obviously far above her ability, so I googled a phrase, and it took me directly to an article on Cervantes Virtual. Word for word, gentlemen. Word for word. Maybe she felt that by rearranging a few things she was doing her own work. Sheesh.

4 comments:

Shandy said...

Two things:

First, how do you plan on sanctioning this student?

Second, I had a student plagiarize TWO reaction papers in my Golden Age class this quarter. The first time I let her off the hook with a "D" on the paper and a stern warning. Apparently not stern enough as she decided to cut-and-paste some analyses of _DQ_ from the internet into her next paper. I had to fail her in the class for this breach of conduct (I think she would have failed anyway, without the penalties). I will talk to Admin to see if she has any reprimands in her dossier. I am not sure I will go official with this.

Mike said...

I emailed her, telling her that I could not accept the paper, and then offered to let her resubmit an acceptable paper, which will count for less than a regular paper, since it's late.

Perhaps that's too generous. I figure if she doesn't take me up on it, or if she gives me any grief, I'll report it officially.

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Traductor said...

Keep good written records of everything.