She talks to wolves...

I know we've been over this and over this, but I want to fully realize for you the ludicrousness of the paper Little Plagiarist Pants #2 turned in to me. And why I shake my head in disbelief that she's calling me and weeping now. Especially ironic phrases in the paper have been bolded. (All mistakes are hers unless I made a typo. But, really, all mistakes are probably hers.)

Little Miss Plagiarist Pants
English 12
May 22, 2007

Plagiarism

Plagiarism is strictly speaking or stealing someone words, ideas & creative works. After I learn that it's a crime I was told to do this paper on plagiarism. So I look on the internet if reference under Plagiarism Stopper A Teacher Guide it states that plagiarism is a rapidly growing problem in many venues today. Because it is so easy to locate information using the Internet, student have given in to the temptation to take material and use them fir their own. This needs to be addressed by all who are in the education field by teaching the observance of proper citation and copyright compliance and by making sure our students know that stealing someone else's work is wrong. This site may help you in your efforts toward these goals. Please feel free to suggest additional site or information and recommendations for redesign. I also look under OWL online writing Lab its said: Whether international or, as is more often the case, inadvertent, the results is that is that some or all of your own. It's like lip-synching to someone else's voice and accepting the applause and rewards for yourself. Incidentally, plagiarism also includes informal published material such as the re-use of the same paper for more than one course or "buying" a paper from another student. If it feels like cheating or an easy way-out, and the moral and intellectual consequences don't sound alarm bells, stop and think of the serious punitive repercussions you could incur. Because it is intellectual theft, plagiarism is considered by all post-secondary institutions as an academic crime with punishment anywhere from an F on that particular paper to dismissal from the course to expulsion from the college or university. If that scares you, it shouldn't because there is no reason it has to happen to you. Avoid plagiarism by following and understanding standard documentation formats, learning how to note-take effectively, and properly incorporating sources direct quotations or paraphrases within your own insights so that it is clear where and supplement your own discussion. Your research paper won't be some cheap throw-together of unoriginal thoughts. You suppose to rewrite in your own words a least if you get a reference from the internet. I under MLA-Style its said: The penalty for plagiarism is usually the teachers teaching or the course involving. Some of high schools and colleges failure the paper and you fail the course and you get expulsion from school. The rules about plagiarism is really no excuse, and its really bad violation.
Plagiarism is not violation but it also violate the ethics. Students who plagiarize have cheated themselves out high school will be response for their academic achievement in life. Instructors and teachers aware students about plagiarism. Its important to recognize this definition is very important. Plagiarism has been around for many years, the invention of the internet has made for plagiarism even more of a challenge @ Plagiarism.org. 90 percent of student made plagiarizing on all their written assignments and they use the internet has made plagiarism most on the course they have taken. I also discussed @ plagiarism.org, its said: Plagiarism known as a dishonesty in colleges. Students were getting expulsion, and once you get expel from college you will not be able attend to another college as was said at the school by the principal. Some schools expect the fact you copy and paste someone's information that they wrote. English teachers give us a website page to look up the summary or information about the work. A major concern was the key to avoid plagiarizing people's information. Plagiarism prevention issues of immense sensitivity and importance to people in all areas of education. They are also of great concernto middle and high school teachers and administrators, and faculty and administrators in colleges and universities. Librarians have also embraced the issue of plagiarism and realized the importance of linking it to the proper documentation of sources to teach users about the importance of knowing about fair use, plagiarism, and documentation. Plagiarism is also moral. The resource from internet is to educate students on different information on what they looking for. Plagiarizing by copying and paste information on paper could get you in a lot of trouble. College the professors detect plagiarism and if it was problem they had it under control. One way a student can plagiarize is to copy something directly from another persons work. A sutdent might also say something and assume that it is not plagiarizing. It is plagiarism if only small changes were made to the source copy and the students work. Another way that students plagiarize is to put together different pieces of work turn it in as their final piece of work. The pressure the students have to deal with by doing research papers and Essays they use the information from the internet. High school students when they were told do assignment in class dealing with internet using they plagiarized they information on poster board or book report way. There many problems in colleges & high school dealing with plagiarizing information, some teachers & professors plagiarized false documents. Personally I never a teacher talk about Plagiarism I in school until I came here, because English 12 we copy and paste information and present the information in front of the class. I think plagiarism should be blame on students who never no plagiarism. Some students don't know when they plagiarism, because you can change of up the information or you can use a paragraph and then you can use your own information. Students who do not understand the meaning up plagiarism they should get a clearing understanding of the copying someone's work or the use of your working.


There you have the two glorious typed pages of her punishment report explaining what plagiarism is, how to avoid it, why it's bad, and why she'll never do it again. Remember that the report was supposed to be four pages long: when I talked to her on the phone yesterday, she sobbed that she had turned in four pages and the evil Office Lady had lost them. Considering the second page ends more than a finger's length above the bottom of the page, however, I seriously doubt that allegation.

I suppose I could give her a few points for trying (kinda. sorta) to parenthetically cite her sources. Except, if she'd actually READ what she was copy-pasting and butcheringre-typing, she might have learned that what she did still counts as plagiarism. Also, what she did barely counts as being written in the English language at some points. (Notice there are no paragraphs in her paper. She says that she was never taught how to make paragraphs in public school.)

Below the cut, you will find my notes searching out her sources. I got a bit lazy toward the latter half of her paper, when the sentences became so incoherent that I had trouble pulling useful search phrases out of them.

( My notes on her sources... )

Instead of immediately failing my two seniors who plagiarized their prose essays, I allowed my boss to talk me into giving them a punishment assignment instead. They were to write an eight-page paper that fulfilled the following requirements:

-defined plagiarism,
-explained how it happened,
-explained why it's bad,
-explained how to avoid it,
-delivered a personal declaration involving how the student would never plagiarize again,
-included a bibliography.

One student called today, 46 minutes before it was due, and asked for an extension. She said she couldn't get a ride up to the school. I told her that she'd had four days to get it up to the school and had no excuse. Especially since we have a mail slot.

The other student delivered her paper in person before the deadline. I started looking over it after she left and a stone began to fill in my belly. After staying up an hour past my imposed bedtime, I find that stone has been justified.

She plagiarized her punishment paper.

95% of it is just copied, word for word, from the various websites she listed on her bibliography. Yes, she provided a bibliography. However, she didn't put any of these things into her own words. She also didn't cite any of her uses in the text of her paper.

I am absolutely livid. Honestly, do I look stupid? Did she honestly think I wouldn't check her plagiarism punishment paper for plagiarism? Did she think I really wouldn't fail her this late in the game? Does she think I care whether she has to go to summer school when she's supposed to have graduated?

(And to think I almost just tiredly decided not to check it in the interest of going to bed. At least there was my conscience and Andy to prevent me from just going to sleep.)

I briefly had this very entertaining fantasy because of something Douglas said: I would let her get as far as walking up the aisle at graduation, all resplendent in her cap and gown. Then, I'd step forward, meeting her half-way up the aisle. In my hand, I would grasp the Monopoly card that proclaims "DO NOT PASS GO. DO NOT COLLECT 200 DOLLARS." I would press this into her hand, with a shit-eating grin, then rip off her cap and send her bawling back to her seat.

I'm not that mean-spirited, honestly. I'm just tired and frustrated. EXCEEDINGLY FRUSTRATED WITH THIS PLAGIARISM BUSINESS.

At least she made her paper a study in irony. In and around the plagiarism, she has such golden phrases as:

"I personally think a way to avoid plagiarism is using your own information, sources, and ideas. Also by not using word for word from someone else's information."

and

"In the past, I have found myself hesitating when making a promise, but today without a shadow of a doubt, I can say that I will never consider plagiarizing again. I myself am a Christian and with me giving my life to Christ, I took on the responsibility of not only reading but living what the Bible says. Exodus 20 clearly states from one of the Ten Commandments 'Thou shalt not steal.'"

This chick's nickname has just become Takes Moron Pills. I wonder if I'll see her in summer school. It might be best for her if she went elsewhere considering how hard on her I'll be.