My teacher accused me of plagiarism?
So teachers have this thing they scan papers with to see if it plagiarized. My paper came back a 0/100 because it had material found on the internet on a free essay website. I HAVE NEVER BEEN TO THIS OR ANY OTHER WEBSITE. I sent her an email to which she has not responded but I really didn't copy it must just be an unfortunate coincidence. I don't want to stay in her class because I feel no matter what she will grade me with bias. What should I do? I put a lot into that paper I know kids lie because they don't want to be in trouble but i'm really hurt by this.
How to tell my teacher I plagiarized?
He caught me doing it on a paper I turned in. I'm a dean's list student and I've never done this before I just got so over whelmed. He talked to me about my paper but didn't actually come out and say it. Just said that he went online and looked into it and stuff. He said he doesn't usually turn papers into the dean so I'm a bit worried that he will since I didn't admit to it. I'd like to send him an email but I don't know how to tell him.
How do teachers detect plagiarism?
Now it's easy...they have software that searches texts and can find close enough matches of written content. My experience is, always cite your references...it doesn't always matter how much information you take from other references, as long as you are referencing it you can't get in trouble for plagiarism.
How do teachers check for plagiarism?
Most teachers can tell because a plagiarized paper looks different from the student's other work. It's generally better-written than the student's other work. Then all they have to do is take part of the paper and google it.
How do teachers tell plagiarism from essays that just look similar?
Like several posters have suggested in this thread, changes in style from the student’s voice is a dead giveaway. Sometimes, that might be dramatic changes in punctuation and sentence structure from the students’ earlier essays or earlier parts of the same paper.Sometimes, in freshman composition papers, it is the use of advanced terminology that I wouldn’t expect in an 18-year old. (For instance, in a freshman composition paper based on their personal experiences, I wouldn’t expect to find references to typological readings, as most 18-year olds have no idea what medieval typology is.)In my own case, I have a little bit of background in linguistics, so it’s a dead giveaway when one of my students who speaks in class with Appalachian dialect traits submits a paper with linguistic markers that I would expect in a speaker from New Jersey or London, and that leads me to check the paper more closely.Whether a student calls the same outdoor activity, hiking, camping, ambling, or wood-walking is a bit of diction that links them to specific regions. The same is true for dash box, glovebox, or jockey box as a term to apply to the part of a car where you store the owner’s manual, or whether the student drinks pop, soda, fizzy water, carbonated bevs, or “cokes” as a generic term for all brands. When a student points out a yellow jacket swarm in the classroom, did the students call them bugs, pests, insects, stingers, wasps, or use the common Appalachian word waspers? If so, did the student’s word choice indicate a dialect that matches what I see in this particular paper?That diction sings out on the page as I read it. Out of four classes and maybe 90 students in my classes each semester, I pretty reliably catch about four students each semester who plagiarize, and usually it’s diction choice from a dialect that first makes my spider-sense tingle. Once the spider-sense tingles, it is usually less than five minutes to identify a passage from an online source by some quick Google-fu.This is why I usually don’t bother with Turnitin.com. It’s an excellent resource, but for me it’s been redundant compared to just knowing the student’s voice.
Should I tell my teacher about another student plagiarizing their answers for an assignment?
Most schools have an anonymous method to report acts of dishonesty. If your school does not, you can submit an anonymous letter to your teacher or at the Dean of Students office. If you are not in college, but rather in high school, you can present the anonymous information about the breaking of academic integrity to your principal, a guidance counselor, or anyone in academic leadership that you as a student have access to easily. But before you do this, please make sure you are sure this has happened and offer evidence to bolster your argument.
My teacher thinks I plagiarized?
She could use Google or some other search engine. There's also a website that my college uses call Turnitin.com that automatically checks thousands of websites, books, journals, etc. and highlights what may have been copied. The site then gives you an "Originality Report" that shows a percentage of how original the essay is. I doubt she'll be able to use that site though since you need to upload the word document right from your own computer to the site. If you truly did not plagiarize, you have nothing to worry about.
A teacher found out that my paper was plagiarized. What should I do?
My standard punishment for plagiarism is a zero on your paper. Not an F, a zero. That means you will get a C for the course if you ace everything else, more likely a D, which does not transfer to other schools. Your name also goes into a database so that other professors can check to see if you plagiarized in their courses. In some schools you get an automatic F with a special notation saying it was for plagiarism. Every school you apply to can see the mark, as can every employer. For hiring in some fields, it's only slightly less worse than a prison record. Plagiarism is incredibly obvious and easy to catch. A plagiarist deserves the punishment they get. I've seen some students try to bluster their way out with silly threats about filing lawsuits. Those don't work and only harden the professor's determination. As others pointed out, your best bet is to be honest about it. Take your punishment and learn from it. You might be able to limit the damage to a single course.
I got caught plagiarizing, how do I face my teacher?
I caught a student plagiarizing yesterday, and I have unfortunately caught many over my almost 30 years of teaching. Here is how I always hope my students will handle it:The student comes to my office, and when I ask, “Do you have anything you want to tell me?” the student says, “I’m sorry. I have no excuse. I was lazy/scared of failing/panicking/(insert other reason—reason, not excuse) and I did it and I’m just sorry.”In that case, I would sit down with the student and go over exactly how and why the particular case amounted to plagiarism, and how they can avoid it in the future. A student taking an attitude like that would go a long way toward repairing my trust in them.My policy on plagiarizing is clear, in line with my university’s policy, and spelled out in English and Japanese on my syllabus. I also go over it several times during the semester, to remind everyone, and I explain just what constitutes plagiarism. But I understand how confusion or panic can drive a student to do something like that.Early in my teaching career, I had a student’s parents actually threaten to sue the school because I caught the student plagiarizing. The case was very clear cut and quite egregious—the student copied an essay that was in the textbook I was teaching from for another class! AND she denied she’d plagiarized, insisting everything she wrote was from her own mind and she’d never seen that essay before and it was just a coincidence that 95% of the words of her essay exactly matched those of the essay in the textbook—yet the school backed down and asked me to let the student write another paper. I was disheartened and agreed—I was a new adjunct teacher, after all—but surprise, the student never got around to writing the replacement paper.That was definitely a case of what not to do.