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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: free plagiarism busting site?
Gwen, Last year I had two 8th grade boys cut and paste whole pages from the Internet for their Civil War research research. Oddly enough, this was a person or battle they had chosen to research. I let the principal know, called and sent a letter home to parents with the high school policy and my "punishment". Our high school policy reads similar to yours. I gave the boys two weeks to redo the paper or they had a ). Neither bothered to rewrite it. Linda "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." Romans 10:13 -----Original Message----- From: GJSA24@aol.com To: middle-lit@interversity.org Sent: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [middle-lit] free plagiarism busting site? I've been reading the posts on the plagiarism problem and detection sites. Have had that "teachable moment" as you wryly put it, Cathy. How do varous schools/teachers handle this when detected, I wonder? I scared the students silly prior to larger research assignments by reading the H.S. policy on plagiarism (F or 0 on item, first offense, F or 0 for class second offense -- not sure how thoroughly and consistly that is applied, though), and referencing the situation of those whose college careers or degrees were jeapardized through the determination of plagiarism. In another situation, I allowed a student to redo the assignment with a certain # of points reduced. I think as bad as plagiarism are the situationa when a parent does the work for the child, and you can absolutely tell it is not the child's work (vocabulary level, sentence construction, sophistication of thinking). It is very very hard to get to the bottom of it. I have had two students in recent years whose mom's were so obviously doing their work at home. How have others handled this kind of issue? Gwen ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.
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