<div>Most universities have a student manual or policy webpage that explains plagiarism (using someone else's work and presenting it as your own; that is, without citing the source of the original words). Your student either knows or should have known that what she was doing constitutes plagiarism.</div>
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<div>In my classes, I give students who plagiarize a failing grade for the report in which they plagiarized. In some cases, I fail them for the entire course.</div>
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<div>Your student should be happy to have passed the class at all. I suggest that you inform her that she has 2 choices: (a) accept the C grade, or (b) challenge her grade with the Dean, in which case you will cite her plagiarism and ask the Dean to expell her.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:49 PM, giovanni santost <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:santostasigio@yahoo.com">santostasigio@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><br>What is happening with students ??</div>
<div>I passed this girl with a C in an Astronomy for non-science majors class.</div>
<div>She calls me on my cell, demanding a B, saying she will go to the Dean if not satisfied.</div>
<div>She struggled all the semester and she is barely literate. She had problems in understanding 1.6 *10 =16. Seriously.</div>
<div>I was trying to be nice and I passed her with a decent grade. </div>
<div>When I went back and I looked more carefully at her assignment I discovered that on 119 lines of her final paper worth 15 % of her grade 115 lines were copied from the internet word by word.</div>
<div>The other 4 didn't make sense and they were full of grammatical errors.</div>
<div>She did quote 105 lines but the remaining 14, that she claimed to be her own (how somebody can think to write a paper with about 10 % being their "own work "is another wonder of the Universe) are also word by word copied but not quoted.</div>
<div>She is fighting with me claiming I never mentioned they could not paste and copy to do their semester project and that she didn't do anything wrong. She want to go and debate this with my superiors.</div>
<div>What is going on in the minds of these students?</div>
<div>She is not the only one with this sense of the entitlement and reckless arrogance.</div>
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<div><br>--- On <b>Tue, 12/16/08, Damien Broderick <i><<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com" target="_blank">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br></div>
<blockquote style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">From: Damien Broderick <<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com" target="_blank">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>><br>Subject: Re: [ExI] FakeAlert and Virtumonde<br>
To: "ExI chat list" <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br>Date: Tuesday, December 16, 2008, 10:05 PM<br><br><pre>At 11:40 PM 12/16/2008 +0000, BillK wrote:
> <<a href="http://www.malwarebytes.org/" target="_blank">http://www.malwarebytes.org/</a>>
I downloaded this one, ran it, and damn if it didn't find the filthy pests
and crush them like the bugs they are. Interestingly, once it said my PC was
clean, I found that Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool opened up, and
reported also that I was clean as a whistle. Not sure I believe any of them
entirely, but for now I seem good to go. Thank you for this excellent advice,
sir!
Damien Broderick
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