Just nabbed my first plagiarized paper of the semester. When will students learn that someone who has spent the last 12 years in higher education can recognize a student written paper that incorporates passages from an academic journal article? Seriously, it's like the writing equivalent of a speed bump. I'm reading student prose when WHAM! 12 dollar words abound. It's quite jarring, actually.
I take a preverse amount of pleasure from entering a "0" in the grade book.
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I don't think that's perverse at all. I think anyone who's stupid enough to think that a professor can't tell a freshman student's writing from that of a professional deserves as low a grade as can be given.
Here at the U of U, that sort of thing can get a student an automatic failing grade for the course and/or expulsion from the University -- Go back home, do not pass Go, do not collect $200.
I can pursue the same course of action, Mike. In order to do so, however, I have to deal with an inordinate amount of paperwork and it usually takes several months for the entire process to work. Obviously, I won't be around for several months.
The UVSC Academic Honesty policy sounds like it's in line with the requirements at the U of U.
It was funny....I was on the phone with my sister when I read this yesterday, and she said something to the effect of being able to picture my "glee" at catching someone like that. I think part of it would be disappointment at the laziness. Maybe a little of it would be "glee".
But only a very small bit.
In one of the lab classes I had up here, we spent a couple of weeks in lecture discussing the peer review process and academic dishonesty. (I think the department is still stinging from the whole 'cold fusion' fiasco of a few years back.)
I've already decided that I'm going to have my students do at least some writing, even if it's just a short paper or lab write-up. And I've decided we're going to talk in some depth about the standards for academic accountability.
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