Community› The Bump Message Boards› Babies: 9 - 12 Months
Babies: 9 - 12 Months
New Discussion

Wish me luck!

margeincharge2margeincharge2
in Babies: 9 - 12 Months

Today I am meeting with my dean to discuss handling my three plagiarism cases. I know I shouldn't feel bad but in one case I really do. It's a student who is supposed to graduate next week "with honors." She copied and pasted her entire paper from other online sources, literally word for word. And then she put false citations in the bottom. I spent last night until 3am documenting all of this.

I know what will happen. She will fail the course, not graduate, and I'm guessing not get honors. I don't know what affect an F would have on one's gpa. I know she will cry.

The other three cases involve a student who I think misunderstood proper citation (foreign student) and the other is a student who wrote his paper in 1 day and got sloppy. I still haven't decided what I'm doing about either of them and I'm hoping my dean can help me figure it out. In both of their cases, they're not graduating so I feel like we have more time to work with them and make sure it doesn't happen again.

On top of all that, I have to finish grading papers AND final exams by Sunday. This is so not going to be a fun weekend.

Pregnancy Ticker Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker
Report Reply to Post

Re: Wish me luck!

  • FrickandFrackFrickandFrack member
    I don't want to sound heartless but she will get what she deserves.  How do you know that she hasn't done this her whole college career and that's the only reason why she got honors to begin with.  I take classes part time and I know better.  It's not like they don't tell you that's not appropriate and will not be tolerated.
    Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
    Report Reply
  • Loading the player...
  • cszlachtacszlachta

    imagekfrix13:
    I don't want to sound heartless but she will get what she deserves.  How do you know that she hasn't done this her whole college career and that's the only reason why she got honors to begin with.  I take classes part time and I know better.  It's not like they don't tell you that's not appropriate and will not be tolerated.

    I totally agree 

    Report Reply
  • margeincharge2margeincharge2
    I hear ya! I definitely feel the same way and will proceed accordingly. It's just there is a part of me that hates doing this.
    Pregnancy Ticker Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker
    Report Reply
  • ChrysallysChrysallys member
    As an honors college student who earned her honors the honest way, I say screw her. She made her bed and now she has to lie in it. Please don't feel bad.
    imageLilypie Third Birthday tickers image
    Report Reply
  • fairychick77fairychick77 member

    I know you probably feel bad for her, but she knows better so unfortunately she has to deal with consequences. 

    Good luck!

    Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
    Report Reply
  • margeincharge2margeincharge2

    imageChrysallys:
    As an honors college student who earned her honors the honest way, I say screw her. She made her bed and now she has to lie in it. Please don't feel bad.

    Yeah, I know. That's the one thing that I keep thinking about. I was an undergrad at this institution as well, in the honors program. I have never once thought about plagiarizing. I would stay up all night if it meant finishing a paper at the last minute. But never once did it cross my mind to take someone else's words at my own.

    The capper of it all is that the conclusion of the paper says "my paper demonstrated...." I wanted to say honey, this isn't your paper but I didn't.

    Pregnancy Ticker Baby Birthday Ticker Ticker
    Report Reply
  • katie_cjkatie_cj member

    Tough ***.

    If she was the foreign student who you think misunderstood proper citations..then I would feel bad. But sounds like she knew exactly what she was doing.

     

    Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
    Report Reply
  • aly401aly401 member

    imageChrysallys:
    As an honors college student who earned her honors the honest way, I say screw her. She made her bed and now she has to lie in it. Please don't feel bad.

    This- but I know what you mean. That has to be hard on you but you cant feel bad. She knows better. College prepares you for the 'real' world and lets just say she is learning a very big lesson right now.

    I just finished a paper last week and would never do what she did. I may take thoughts from different sources and re-word it but you'd better believe that I will cite the crap out of it!

    It's just not worth it.

    Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
    Report Reply
This discussion has been closed.
Choose Another Board
Search Boards
"
"