I Got Caught Plagiarizing. What Will Happen

I got caught plagiarizing. what will happen?

Ok so i'm in my 3rd week of college EVER (freshman). I had to write a paper on a book about something we didn't talk about in class in a philosophy 101 intro common core class. I didn't know where to start so I wrote most of it but I have a problem where I cant look beyond the lines/ think deeply so I was like ok maybe it will help so I read it and combined some of the ideas with mine so I could have supporting information and it would be an in depth paper. I only did this for a few lines of like 2 paragraphs. Every other paragraph was from my own thoughts, I just wasn't confident in my own writing. I didn't know this was plagiarism since I did not copy and paste what so ever.
So I turn it in and a day later I get an email that says "Perhaps you are unaware of the definition of plagiarism; but regardless of ignorance, taking ideas and sentences (even if you slightly reword them) from Sparknotes, without citation, fulfills the university's definition of plagiarism. Thinking that I was unaware of Sparknotes is astonishingly foolish.




Come to office hours and we will discuss how to proceed, and how you will need to handle this with the Office of Academic Dishonesty.




Professor Bailey"

then I explained that I didn't know we couldn't use references to support our ideas. he didn't explain the assignment well. they just put it on the syllabus.

Then he said" I find it very hard to believe you did not know that it is not allowed to take ideas from websites like Wikipedia and Sparknotes.




If you are a new student, hopefully this will make you realize that plagiarism is no way to try and squeak by without learning anything"

ITS NOT LIKE I COPY AND PASTED THE WHOLE ESSAY I guess college is different than high school. In English we never learned citing sources, just watched movies and plays. This is very new to me.
He might fail the paper but rewrites are always allowed. He could fail me for the course but we are allowed to drop courses until Oct. 28th so I will just drop it if he tries to fail me.

Please help. I am meeting with him after class tomorrow morning after class and I have my arguments ready. So if I said "according to a sparknotes idea..." it would've been okay?

I just wasn't aware of the definition of plagiarism.
I don't need a lecture, im sure I will get one tomorrow

Got caught plagiarizing... what will happen?

I'm in 9th grade and got caught cheating on a weekly writing assignment. I plagiarized a small part of a website. The class is Language Arts 1 Pre-IB (International Baccalaureate) and the teacher told me i got a 0 on the that assignment and she was required to report it to the counselor. She also said the school took cheating seriously and had a 3 strike rule, which meant that after getting caught cheating 3 times, you get kicked out of the IB program.

Now my question is how will this affect me going to my college of choice? The 0 on the assignment didn't hurt me that much and i still have pretty good grades.

What happens when you get caught plagiarizing in college (LSU)?

intentional plagiarism is a clear-cut matter at Baylor. Teachers turn in any students they believe have willfully plagiarized. The Honor Council hears each case, and students found guilty suffer these consequences:

1) They receive a 0 on the work in question.

2) They are suspended, most often for two or three days. The length depends largely on the student's behavior before the Honor Council; truthfulness and contrition are appropriate when the evidence is compelling. Ordinarily the student misses a day of school for the first day of suspension (and receives a 0 on all work that day). Remaining days are "reverse suspension"; students serve these during the next vacation.

3) Students who are convicted of plagiarism also receive specific final warning and will suffer expulsion if they are convicted of a further honor offense.





"at Baylor, as at other academic institutions, intentional plagiarism is an honor offense, and teachers turn in to the Honor Council any student whose work they believe to be dishonest."

--The B Book: A Handbook for Students and Parents

The penalties for unintentional plagiarism are not quite as clear-cut. A teacher may assign plagiarized work an academic penalty (most often a 0) but not send the author of that work to the Honor Council if the teacher is convinced--given the age of the student, the nature of the offense, and the scope of the offense--that the student did not intend to plagiarize. For example, if a younger student, in taking notes, failed to quote a six-word phrase and that phrase ended up in his or her essay without quotation marks but with the source cited, a teacher might conclude that the student had been careless rather than intentionally dishonest.

I got caught plagiarizing! What should i do??? HELP?

The more sincerely apologetic you are, the more likely the principal is to think you get it. Try writing another essay - about cheating and why it is bad. And make sure you don't lift anyone else's ideas to do it!

You seem upset that you got caught and now have to deal with the consequences. What you should be upset about is that you didn't trust your own mind and ideas enough to do your own work. You're either lazy or insecure. Stand up, show some integrity and take responsibility for your mistake. Offer to do double the work for the rest of the semester or do a seminar on the perils of plagiarism.

If I was the principal, I'd make you take summer school and an ethics class.

What happens when you get caught plagiarizing in college?

It will go to trial, but usually a professor won't even pursue it without clear evidence, so it's rarely worthwhile to fight it unless you're innocent or know the evidence is flimsy.

For a first offense, the typical policy is either a zero for the assignment or to fail the entire class. Sometimes it can come with academic probation or other sanctions. After a second or third offense (it varies), a student may be dismissed from the university. If there is a one-size-fits-all system for dealing with plagiarism cases, this information might be published in the student handbook (or equivalent website). Either way, there is usually a section in it on plagiarism, cheating and other kinds of academic dishonesty.