Today's Labor Day, but if I had any doubts that the semester was already well underway, those doubts have now been dispelled.
I have a plagiarist.
Yes, ALREADY: one of my students turned in a reading response that she'd lifted almost entirely from SparkNotes (it's all paraphrase, but it's a very close paraphrase).
And so it begins again.
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That, Ms. F., just totally, totally sucks. I hope this doesn't put a damper on your otherwise excellent beginning-of-semester buzz.
Ouch. A reading response, for god's sake! Sigh. I'm sorry.
Oh, crap, I hate that.
Last week I got one, too. The funny part? He plagiarized ME. Lifted my syllabus, word for word. I think in my student's case it was cluelessness, but sheesh.
Already!?!? I guess it doesn't take long for someone to test the waters.
She's already too busy hazing freshmen or whatnot to write a reading response? Sucks.
Urgh. How awful.
We should start having contests to see who will get the first one each semester, etc.
Now THAT is a student committed to slacking off. Wow. Very sorry for you, though.
I'm curious (since I'm sure I won't escape the curse this semester): how do you handle plagiarism? I'd love a post on that. :)
Drawing and quartering seems too lax, somehow.
I hope you can bring her around, teach her to care about what she's doing.
Good luck.
2 baseball players copied each other's homework word for word, on the very first assignment. I told them to knock it off and I think they got the message. BONUS: if I tell the coach, he makes them run laps! I haven't gotten to that point ... yet ... but it's a nice backup plan. What do these students think, anyway.
I hope you gave her a zero!
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