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Old 11-9-2005, 03:47 PM   #1
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Default Remember kids, DO NOT PLAGIARISE.

Here is an email that our professor sent out to everyone in our online class:

Humn 325 students: Well, I have run everyone's submissions through
turnitin, and it was quite and eye-opener. I would say the majority of
the students used material that was not theirs without citing it or
quoting it. 3 people made no mistakes in this manner. Three people were
3% unoriginal. 4 people were between 11-32% unoriginal, and two people
were 70% and above. Make sure you cite _everything_ you put in your
paper that comes from another source next time. I have already contacted
the people who need to rewrite completely (over 30% unoriginal) From
10-20%, students will just take a grade hit. (I will contact them
shortly) Dr. Groves


This is one of the many cases I have seen concerning plagiarism. If you think it needs to be quoted, quote it anyways. If you paraphrase it, you don't need to quote it. However, you may need to still cite the source at the end of that sentence or paragraph.

An Austrian friend of mine, during his first semester at college, was told he was plagiarizing. He did not know. He paraphrased but didn't cite a source. This was in his literature class. He had to drop the class because the professor was a cockface and wanted to get him expelled.

Oh, and in case you are wondering...
Jason: your paper was shown to be completely original by turnitin .com.
Groves



So, this is just a fair warning to everyone. Even though I knew mine was perfectly fine, that first email he sent out still scared me. Share your stories of people who plagiarise. I have a funny one I will post later.
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Old 11-9-2005, 03:59 PM   #2
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Default RE: Remember kids, DO NOT PLAGIARISE.

I dont plagiarise I procrastinate, being up at 4 on a school night is sooooo cool.
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Old 11-9-2005, 04:27 PM   #3
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Default RE: Remember kids, DO NOT PLAGIARISE.

Never had a professor that went to that much trouble to catch people. But, I find that you can't plagerize if you don't use any sources.

Wait... I thought you graduated last May?
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Old 11-9-2005, 04:41 PM   #4
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Default RE: Remember kids, DO NOT PLAGIARISE.

On a similar note, professors can catch you "borrowing" someone else's code too. Same kind of system with whatever turnitin is.

Just changing the variable names and suchnot is not enough. We've had so many kids forced to drop the class from this.

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Old 11-9-2005, 04:47 PM   #5
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Never done it. Never will.
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Old 11-9-2005, 05:20 PM   #6
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Default RE: Remember kids, DO NOT PLAGIARISE.

The History and English teachers in my high school use turnitin.com. It's pretty damn effective(not that I'd know from experience or anything...).
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Old 11-9-2005, 05:37 PM   #7
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Default RE: Remember kids, DO NOT PLAGIARISE.

I remember once in 7th grade my friend said that during his class, the teacher said that there were two identical essays in the total of all of his classes, and one of those was from my friend's period. Sure enough, they were using cheathouse.com for their essay. They ph41led. Haha, OWNED!

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Never had a professor that went to that much trouble to catch people. But, I find that you can't plagerize if you don't use any sources.
Actually, it's funny. Someone whom I know once said they got in trouble for plagerizing once but they claimed to have paraphrased, and I believe that person =/ They got off the hook, supposively. Sometimes, your paraphrases can be quite similar to another source.
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Old 11-9-2005, 05:45 PM   #8
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Default RE: Remember kids, DO NOT PLAGIARISE.

Didn't Zajac get busted for cheating a while ago?
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Old 11-9-2005, 07:14 PM   #9
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I qoute books that don't exist.
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Old 11-9-2005, 07:19 PM   #10
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Default RE: Remember kids, DO NOT PLAGIARISE.

Ahhhhh. Plagiarising in 6th grade was fun.

And i was only caught once. (Language Arts).
That day i also learned NEVER to say this:
"That is so stupid, i would have never..."
Teacher: "You are calling me stupid?"
"Uh.."

That just ends up with a detention.
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Old 11-9-2005, 08:12 PM   #11
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Default RE: Remember kids, DO NOT PLAGIARISE.

Every single one of my teachers checks for plagerism. Even in one class we do journal entries every day and at the end of the week she takes them up and checks them.. im like WTF man?
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Old 11-9-2005, 08:20 PM   #12
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Default RE: Remember kids, DO NOT PLAGIARISE.

Reminds me of one time when a teacher confiscated one student's watch/calculator (a friend of mine, who always plays by the rules) because she thought it "could connect to the Internet" and "give him a mark he doesn't deserve on the test".

P.S. To Bandit's teacher:

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Old 11-9-2005, 08:53 PM   #13
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I got in trouble in American Cultures one. I was Writing my thesis report. "Eli Whitney's innovation of interchangeable parts had many negative consequences for the american people."

Ok, we had to do internal documentation (paranthetical citations.) This is our first time doing it and they expected us to do it perfect. I forgot to put one of the citation in my paper and I lost 10 points.

Thats horrendus, Freaking 10 points. I need those points!!!!

It turns out that the citation was in my rough draft and not in my final so I only lost 5.
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Old 11-9-2005, 09:31 PM   #14
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It turns out that the citation was in my rough draft and not in my final so I only lost 5.
They f**king look over your rough draft and take points off it? Doesn't that beat the purpose of it being a rough draft? That's what I'd call a big crapload of...

Asshattery!
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Old 11-9-2005, 09:34 PM   #15
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Dont double post mister. tisk-tisk
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Old 11-9-2005, 09:38 PM   #16
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I wrote a paper once in seventh grade that was really nice.. So nice infact that the teacher told me it looked like I copied it straight from the encyclopedia..

Stupid girl.. Still got a B though.
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Old 11-9-2005, 09:45 PM   #17
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That's kind of strange... ah well, had my share of things like that too.
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Old 11-9-2005, 10:19 PM   #18
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I remember once in 7th grade my friend said that during his class, the teacher said that there were two identical essays in the total of all of his classes, and one of those was from my friend's period. Sure enough, they were using cheathouse.com for their essay. They ph41led. Haha, OWNED!

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Never had a professor that went to that much trouble to catch people. But, I find that you can't plagerize if you don't use any sources.
Actually, it's funny. Someone whom I know once said they got in trouble for plagerizing once but they claimed to have paraphrased, and I believe that person =/ They got off the hook, supposively. Sometimes, your paraphrases can be quite similar to another source.
I let some girl in my class, borrow my paper and copy it exactly last year... Didn't even get caught...then again, it was a different teacher. But I was kind of scared.
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Old 11-9-2005, 10:55 PM   #19
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Ugh.

Writing an original paper takes like 15-30 minutes per page required. It's not that hard.

What I love is when I get a 110% on my papers for writing an original, interesting, and informative paper. Every time.

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Old 11-9-2005, 11:04 PM   #20
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Didn't Zajac get busted for cheating a while ago?
I was wondering if anyone was gonna bring that up... +10 polak points to anyone that finds my thread about what happened on my Senior paper and links it in this thread :P It was called Senior Paper Crisis or something like that... Good times :P

And +5 polak points to Esupin for remembering
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