Plagiarism, no matter how blatant, can be difficult to substantiate if the
student is litigious. Take it up with the appropriate authorities but don't
expect much support. I have seen numerous cases where administrators have
caved in leaving the faculty holding the bag. One alternative, scare the
bejesus out of the student (perhaps by handing him/her the official school
policy), look very stern and angry and then say that " this paper is an "F"
as of now. However, if you convince me by the end of the semester that you
deserve a break, I will reconsider" don't define how the student is supposed
to convince you. This may sound cynical and even cruel, but sometimes it is
the only recourse.
>From: "Lara Piotrowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Question about Plagiarism
>Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 05:51:07 -0800
>
>I'm curious. Did you actually see the article that he copied? If he did
>actually plagerize, my advice would be to follow the guidelines that your
>school has for plagerism. If you dont put a stop to it now, he'll never
>learn to do his own work.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Will Will [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 15:21:40 -0800 (PST)
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Question about Plagiarism
>
>
>
>I just got in some papers and I suspect that one of
>them is plagarized. It seems that the student has
>copied major parts of from one of his articles to
>become the heart of his assignment. There is no
>citation or reference for this part, while the rest is
>cited accordingly.
>
>I mentioned to the student that I would like to meet
>with them tomorrow afternoon, I was wondering what
>type of advice people might have to handle this?
>
>William Frederick
>Adjunct Faculty, Lake Land College
>
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