Plagiarism Help. Am i Guilty .Final year Final chance.

Plagiarism-
I am Redoing Thesis (failed it) and emailed copy of this new work .My Tutor knows i had help reworking -plus added 600 words not mine (10,000) -If University has evidence of intention of Plagarism (My plagiarism =got Help restructuring rewrote introduction and added 600 word) can you be expelled or is it the

Is it signed final work v Evidence of intention to plagarise. (though minimal input).

Sent to my thesis leader my new work for review which she knows i got help with ,she hasn't discussed this with me yet . Does anybody know for sure is it the intention or will it be down to the final product which i sign off on. The final work will be all my own ,will i be able to fight if i get accused ,am 38 and this is my last chance for qualification .She is not responding to my emails or calls freaking ...Help

Intention doesn't mean anything when it comes to penalizing a student for academic misconduct. There are some pranksters who would be able to falsify intention with a fake 'proof,' but unless you have actually been caught red-handed, you should be alright.

I think emailing your tutor telling them about the fact that you plagiarized was probably a bad move. It's like asking the cops if the car you stole is going to get you into trouble. Then again, you're 38 and a self-acknowledged screwup, so...

I think u r in big trouble. Unless it was a genuine mistake on your part, then you need to show that you have not actually plagiarized.

You should never admit that you had help in writing or revising your essay. It is one thing for you to have been caught using academic outsourcing help, it is another thing to be foolish enough to admit it (without being asked). What possessed you to do that? You should have just let well enough alone and dealt with any questions about plagiarism if it came up during the review of your paper. You could have had a lot of cover responses such as:

1. My roommate helped me perfect the paper.
2. I asked for help at the university writing center.
3. I worked extra hard on perfecting the paper.
4. I used online grammar and plagiarism checkers to help me polish the content of the paper.
5. I asked for help from "John". He took this course last semester.

Along with a plethora of other excuses as to why your paper would have magically been perfected all of a sudden. A pre-admission of guilt was not warranted and could spell more trouble than that was worth for you.

I would not consider this a case of plagiarism since you wrote the paper but asked for help to add words. If anything, you could be accused of not writing the paper, which is different from plagiarism. However, if you can prove that you wrote most of the paper, then maybe there won't be a case against you. Your mistake was admitting that you had help in writing 600 words of the paper. Remember the "Don't ask, don't tell" rule?

It is obvious that it was not necessary for you to tell your professor that you had help with completing the paper. So you should not have freely offered the information. What purpose did you think that was going to serve aside from jeopardizing your chances of presenting your paper as an original piece of work that you created? Exactly. Learn when you shut your mouth. If you weren't being asked about who wrote the paper, there was no reason for you to have made that information known.

This thread is almost 4 years old, but I'd still be curious to know how it played out. As to the OP's question, it really depends on the thesis policy, because some are much stricter than others. Some actually allow collaboration and assistance (especially for organization and editing) while others allow only editing help; still others strictly prohibit any collaboration whatsoever with any other person to any degree, (and this is more often the case). It's also unclear from the OP whether it's the reworking that the tutor knew about AND the 600 words written by someone else or that the tutor only knew about the reworking help and the OP was just telling us about the 600 words that he didn't write but the tutor didn't know about that part of it.

If I am understanding correctly, it sounds like the user hired someone to review his/her work and add 600 words and then turned in the additions as his/her own. The instructor obviously knew the changes were not the student's work. That is one reason many instructors assign simple writing assignments (maybe a short personal essay about yourself) when the class starts. This lets them know your writing style and level before you are assigned actual course writing.

Still, I'd also be interested to know the outcome.

It sounds more to me like the OP could have claimed to have gotten outside professional help without a problem. While college students do have Writing Centers to go to and research advisers to consult, ESL students need extra help with grammar. Since the leader probably knew of the grammar issues of this student, and the student came clean and said he hired help with the paper, the leader saw nothing wrong with it. It just goes to show that the student was really working on getting the best marks that he could for the paper, even if he had to pay for extra help to achieve that goal. It isn't plagiarism to ask for help and be told or shown how to further improve the paper. The leader would have told him if he was in violation of anything since he is a graduating student and all.

I think the idea of plagiarism in this case would depend upon how the professor would view the action of the student. Since it is normal to seek writing help while in college, telling the professor that you paid for the writing help would be seen more as a positive, rather than a negative action. The student came clean about the editing help, which came after the professor had already seen the original work that he wrote and requested the student to make changes and improvements to the paper. Having seen the original, the professor will definitely understand why he asked for writing help for the revision.

In 25 years of doing this work, the only time I've ever seen instructions that permitted even "editorial assistance" from third parties were all for PhD dissertations, a few of which actually credited me, by name, as "Editor" in the final submission. Without exception, every one of the many hundreds (perhaps thousands) of instructions and honor codes for undergraduate essays that I've seen in project materials absolutely prohibited any outside help whatsoever, other than from the institution's writing center, and expressly required students to submit work that represented 100% their own work and their own writing.