How this Student Chose Plagiarism
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Unless specified, the student’s words are shaded in most places. The multiple colors shown
in one example below are from a file sent to her to try to help her see what
she was doing.
Traits |
Distance learning student Recently out of high school. |
Submission Of Answers To 2 Questions for an Exam |
Both answers were from websites. One of them is shows
below with her submission and the website side by side. The website for the one below is http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080305115457AAQKXHP |
Student answer to the term |
Website What is the historical significance of the
Louisiana Purchase? |
Napoleon sold it to the |
Napoleon sold it to the Source(s): |
My Response |
In the Assessment Comments, I wrote that she needed to provide the URL. |
Her Response a Typical Stage of the Pattern That These
Students Show |
She wrote back about both questions. These students seem to have patterns that they use, but those behaviors don’t work if the instructor uses a common source. 1. The object is to put the burden on the instructor to find the source that the student used. With a common source, I already know what the source says. 2. The object is to get the grade raised. Giving in takes less of the instructor’s time. The students expect to win with this. |
For the Writing project you asked
me to provide an URL. But all the stuff I said there
was on the book pages 195, 200-201. and some of the
things I have said too is from wikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights>. |
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My Response (Also by this point a pattern that sometimes
gets through to them.) |
| You did find in the syllabus that submission of work
from the Internet is an automatic 0 for the assignment, right? |
Her Response |
The pattern includes a statement about how the rules are not understandable or held by any other instructor. Sometimes the pattern includes a statement like the last one. |
Yes Ma'am. I just really don't know how to meet your requirements for all your writing projects. It seem like even if I try my hardest i am still not getting good grades on them. I am so sorry if I am too slow on getting things |
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My Response |
I sent her the colored table below. Her words are on the left, although not green. She had submitted from 2 websites, something that slows down the instructor. The purple was from the first website; the yellow, from the second. |
What you said you
wrote |
What I found instantly when I
searched |
The first ten amendments,
the bill of rights, instituted certain
individual rights. The Bill of Rights
was written after the Constitution had been ratified. James Madison introduced the proposed Bill of
Rights in the House of Representatives on June 8, 1789. Congress approved 12 amendments for ratification
on September 25, 1789 and sent them to the states for ratification. And I quit here but…. |
First 10 amendments to the The Bill of
Rights was written after the Constitution had been ratified ( |
My Response |
| did you get the file with the color-coded comparison of
your text and of two websites? Did that clarify why there is a problem that
the world (not an individual instructor) will not accept? |
Her Response |
The final pattern is sometimes this kind of statement. Many of them persist with the one about how the rules are not understandable or held by any other instructor. |
Yes ma'am I understand and I am sorry for the late reply.
I didnt have any internet access the whole week.
Anyway, I truly understand what I have done and the consequence for it. I
will just try to do good on the next writing
projects and the major one. |
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History – Dr. Bibus |
Contact Information: |
281.239.1577 or cjb_classes@yahoo.com |
Last Updated: |
2010 |
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