Posts by Joy7

Joy7

May 30, 2006

General Talk / My story about "plagiarized" essay [15]

This English teacher gave me a really hard time... I had to write a political essay about the success and failures of the current president. I read some articles about the government, president Bush etc. I found one article that I really liked and I agreed with the author's points - it basically was written in a form of an essay. I thought - since I agree with the topic sentence and the author's points, I will paraphrase it so that I get an original essay.

Plagiarized Story

I rewrote EACH AND EVERY sentence, for example:

Original: President Bush should have not been reelected.

I changed it to:

I don't think it was good for the nation to elect Mr. Bush to be the US president again.

I left the original author's ideas, but I completely reworded them. Unfortunately, my teacher had read this article before and somehow determined I plagiarized it and gave me an F!

I don't think it was fair of him... He didn't require us to include a reference page so I didn't write where I got the ideas from.

He was the hardest teacher I had to deal with throughout college... :( I still think I didn't plagiarize it.

Joy

Joy7

Jun 07, 2006

General Talk / My story about "plagiarized" essay [15]

I wrote an email to the dean; he promised to "look into it." The problem is - I'm going to have two more classes with the same teacher who gave me an F so I also told the dean it's not that important - the most important is getting a good grade on the final exams...

Joy

Joy7

Jun 30, 2006

General Talk / My story about "plagiarized" essay [15]

Actually, I was going to make a post about it. My teacher told me he found out I contacted the dean. But he wasn't angry with me or something. Instead, he offered me to write another essay on a similar topic. I agreed, of course and this time I made sure everything was 101% original. I got an A- and I'm happy about it. I'm lucky the teacher wasn't malicious or something. Thanks for asking.

JOy

Joy7

Jun 30, 2006

General Talk / Online Classes Questions [10]

I know many students who take online classes. I don't think any of them is cheating. As noted by beatrice, it wouldn't make sense at all.

Joy7

Jul 12, 2006

General Talk / My story about "plagiarized" essay [15]

workingonit
That's exactly what I'm talking about. The more information, the less anti-plagiarism software relevant is. One can hear stories on TV about respected authors accused of plagiarism. There must be something done about it.

JOY