'I let him off easy with an F in the class': Professor regrades student's paper after they 'felt strongly they deserved a better grade'

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    Font - You'd like me to regrade your plagiarized paper? SOC When I was a poorly paid and overworked adjunct professor, I once had a student ask me to take another look at his B- paper, something I would do anytime a student felt strongly they deserved a better grade.
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    Font - This particular paper was messy- good argument, decent research, but clunky writing and plenty of grammatical errors. Still, I agreed to take another look.
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    Font - On my second pass, a sentence caught my attention. Assuming the student had failed to cite a quote, I searched for the quote online. What I found was the original version of the student's essay- published in a Yale journal.
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    Font - He'd plagiarized the argument and research but rewritten the paper in his own words. Amazingly almost as much work as just writing an original paper.
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    Font - I called him into my office, put both papers side by side, and asked if he had anything to say. He tried to pretend to be confused- but I cut that off.
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    Font - I let him off easy with an F in the class as long as he finished all the assignments and tests so he could still learn as much as possible, which he did-no report of plagiarism on a long-term record.
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    Font - But poor kid could have just gotten away with a B-, if he hadn't been so confident of his great ripoff!
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    Font - The Ace Trainer I'm having flashbacks to my senior english lit class, we got a party at the end of the year because my class was the only one she never caught anyone plagiarizing or cheating in.
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    Font - ladysusanstohelit I'll never forget my A Level English teacher handing back essays, and getting to one guy who flipped out that she gave him a U (ungraded). She let him have his tantrum, then calmly said 'Next time, don't leave the website link at the bottom of the page you got the essay from, and remember to check for hyperlinks. They show up in blue.' He went completely red, and dashed out of the room while we all ped ourselves laughing.
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    Font - ZoSo1303 There's a guy in almost every class I've taken so far who literally copies and pastes entire websites--formatting, links, images, all of it- - in all of his discussion board posts. He literally just writes one sentence of his own, followed by "as so-and-so (2021) says" with the entire web page after that. Another kid actually copied a big chunk of MY ANSWER for the discussion board and put it in his own post two below mine.
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    Font - I'd say at least half the people in my classes plagiarize most of their answers. I know because a lot of us end up using the same sources and I recognize the paragraphs from the ones I found. None of the professors (it's happened in multiple classes, usually the same people) either catch on or bother to do anything about it.
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    Font - Evan10100 My Spanish teacher in high school told us a story of a student who took another student's paper out of the turn in tray, took it to the library, made a copy of it, put their name on it and didn't even bother to at least try and cover up the original student's name.
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    Font - With that one act, I'm convinced she changed my life. I lost confidence and became untrusting. It's only now in my fifties that I've found my love of writing again. I'm very rusty at it and may never be published, but the creation of a good story is my latest all- consuming hobby. I kick myself for letting her tear me down when I was so young.
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    Font - Introduction Kindly33. I had a student turn in a plagiarized book review... about the wrong book! And then his mom was upset that I didn't ask for his side of the story before reporting the plagiarism.
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    Font - MontanaPurpleMtns I made a 6th grader rewrite his research paper after school. I allowed him to even use his existing research; I just wanted it in his own words. His mother insisted he hadn't plagiarized it. I showed her the exact words he used on an easy to find site. I didn't back down, and he learned not to do that, at least with me. However, it required that I spend a week of after school time while he quietly rewrote his paper under my supervision.
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    Font - Thats_what_im_saiyan So my stepdaughter tried this in 8th or 8th grade. Had to do a report on an urban legend. Or mythical creature that she thought could be true. So she picked bigfoot. She then found an article about bigfoot online. Copy pasted it to word. Put quotes before the first word and after the last word. Quoted the source and handed it in.
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    Font - She was "shocked" and "had no idea" she couldn't do that. There was a small part of me that wanted to argue in support of her. Cause it was kinda funny. But the lying about not knowing any better. Instead of just admitting you got caught. Left a worse taste in my mouth than the cheating.
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    Font - brbeard When I was in middle school, a kid in my class turned in a report on...let's say lizards (memory's fuzzy, here). What I do remember is that, instead of writing a report on lizards, he just photocopied the pages from the encyclopedia and turned those in, lol.
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    Font - AmIFrosty I caught a student plagiarizing art. ART. He went onto google, and screenshot other people's artwork. One ""project"" was from a youtube tutorial about how to draw texture (all he would have had to do was follow along with the video). Another """project"" was from someone's pintrest/instagram- the original creator drew vacation home portraits. He tried to pass it off as "My grandma makes art, she helped me with it." Like no, buddy. I'm petty, if I think something seems off, I'm
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    Font - CoderJoe1 In 7th grade English class we had to write short stories weekly that were worth up to 50 points, but our teacher warned us that she'd never given a full 50 points to any story. After my dog had puppies in the cold Michigan winter in the doghouse because my Mom wouldn't allow a dog in her house, I wrote a story about it. It was pretty raw and a complete departure from anything I'd ever written, but I was proud of it and looked forward to hear my teacher's praise. I was hoping for
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    Font - The day she returned our stories I did not receive mine, but she asked me to stay after class. In private she handed my paper to me with a perfect score and then proceeded to accuse me of cheating because she knew I wasn't capable of writing like that. I was crushed. She was certain I'd plagiarized it, but this was well before the internet was publicly available.
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    Font - Sir_Stash Oh, plagiarism. So easy to spot when the student is not terribly bright about it. I was the editor-in-chief of our college newspaper. Junior year I'm looking over some of the articles the rest of the staff has submitted. Now, our school didn't have a strong English department and didn't actually have a Journalism track or anything like that. The newspaper is basically just a one credit class that is almost a free A as long as you're not stupid.
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    Font - This student did not speak English as his first language and his articles always took a good bit of editing work. I didn't mind, because hey, it was something like his third or fourth language. One day, I get a perfectly formatted music review with flawless grammar and spelling. This was back when the public internet was fairly young. I do a quick search on the first sentence and up pops the music review, word for word.
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    Font - He gets called in to meet with me and the advisor. He claimed that it wasn't any sort of big deal and it happened all the time. He proceeded to get kicked off the staff and received a free F for the class.

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