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My Professor just emailed me about my paper.
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Teachers that Google every sentence in your paper deserve to lose their degree.
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^ its called "Turnitin".
It's like a search engine that examines every word/sentence in a paper and calculates how much has been plagiarized. I say its BS though. I had a paperonce and it said 87% plagiarized when I only had 3 sources and I didn't copy a single sentence out of my sources.
Prof. Rice is just being an *** seriously. A sentence?
I know people who do word-for-word on their papers and never gets caught.
It's like a search engine that examines every word/sentence in a paper and calculates how much has been plagiarized. I say its BS though. I had a paperonce and it said 87% plagiarized when I only had 3 sources and I didn't copy a single sentence out of my sources.
Prof. Rice is just being an *** seriously. A sentence?
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You can get away with it, i did before. Just say you forgot to cite it. Turnitin.com is not as serious as they make it out to be. I only used it in HS, but oneof my teachers thought I plagiarized and I didn't. Told her to prove to me exactly where I plagiarized and she really couldn't pin point anything ofimportance in the paper that was. She believed me because of my grades but I really didn't. Just play the innocent card and you'll be fine.
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Originally Posted by OGbobbyjohnson773
Just tell him, "He made it a hot sentence, I made it a hot paragraph."
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If you aren't BSing us and you truly have no idea what he is talking about, I say you go see him in his office. Just explain to him that you really have noidea what he is talking about. You will definitely have a much better chance of explaining yourself truthfully in person.
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if all fails just take all your notes and conventionally put a five dollar bill in between them
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I definitely don't understand that one. I was a high school teacher and did that. caught at least 10 kids heavily plagiarizing. the students are straightup insulting the intelligence of the teacher and the integrity of the school.
you also obviously missed my thread a few weeks ago when I was writing a group paper in an MBA class and a group member gave me 5-6 pages of pure plagiarism aspart of the paper. you create bad habits they will never lose them.
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I don't plagarize but it's different when you can blatantly see somebody is plagarizing, and sitting there Googling each sentence. I'm about tocheck out that turnitin.com though to see how legit it is.
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Turnitin has been used for several years by the professors on my campus now. The thing is that there is no way you can get a 0%. Even if you do everythingyourself honestly, you will be in the ~50%!+* zone. SMH at the one sentence. I'd holler at the dean of your college. Especially if it's a very commonsentence..a bigger SMH.
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damn sorry to hear that. not to scare you, but this could be a serious issue. someone really close to me was in the exact situation you are in. she unknowingly failed to cite ONE sentence in a paper and her professor caught it; the sentence wasn't a major part of her argument or thesis, more ofjust a space filler. although she had a good rapport with the school dean, she ended up being suspended for a semester. it was definitely a tough lessonlearned, but in the long run, it didn't affect her transcript or post-grad career options. i mean this is likely a worst-case scenario, seeing as it wasnothing egregious like copying an entire essay off the internet or cheating on a test, which could end up a lot worse. good luck my dude; just be honest withyour professor and tell him/her that you really didn't know that you may have copied it without proper citation. i was always scared about this kind ofsituation when i was going through my undergrad years. i think having your professors grade your papers is FAR FAR worse/more dangerous than having your GSIor TA read it.
to all those who are making it a laughing matter, yall must not know how hard some universities come down on "academic dishonesty" and plagirism. they definitely dont play about that kind of stuff.
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Originally Posted by shatterkneesinc
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Just ask him to point out which sentence it is, and tell him that you had no idea where that came from.
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I think he wants to give you the opportunity to correct the situation based him saying in his e-mail that you may have "forgot" to cite a reference.Just go see him in his office, discuss the offending sentence, and submit a corrected version.
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Doesn't matter if you missed a sentence. What you should be worrying about is helping out your so called professor with grammar.
SMH at all those uneccessary commas. I'm only a high school senior and i'd son him. Terrible.
SMH at all those uneccessary commas. I'm only a high school senior and i'd son him. Terrible.
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Just be honest about the citation. He is reaching though.
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dude's a herb, but i gotta admit this was funny
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The only paper I've ever handed in that wasn't my own work was on Mill's concept of Utilitarianism. This hot girl I know took the class thesemester before me
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i'd just explain to him that you didn't mean to do it and your intentions weren't to cheat.
go to his office too instead of over e-mail, so he knows you're serious.
go to his office too instead of over e-mail, so he knows you're serious.
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No, you "sonned" yourself. Those "unnecessary" commas equal correct grammar.Originally Posted by funkyfreshfelix
Doesn't matter if you missed a sentence. What you should be worrying about is helping out your so called professor with grammar.
SMH at all those uneccessary commas. I'm only a high school senior and i'd son him. Terrible.
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Originally Posted by GULLYDAGREAT
Originally Posted by shatterkneesinc
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