Last quarter I had a student, let's call him George, who failed my class because he plagiarized all the assignments. He wasn't sneaky or covert about it. In fact, he COPIED AND PASTED excerpts from one of the suggested readings from my syllabus. Yes, he was so lazy that he couldn't even find his own source to copy.
Needless to say, he failed the class. Then he re-enrolled this quarter.
I just read his first paper. About a sentence into it I started doing a little co
pying and pasting of my own: right into Google. Wouldn't ya know, the majority of this paper can be found on pinkmonkey.com. Yeah, you read it right, this baboon used a site called Pink Monkey to pull the banana peel over my eyes and that just APE gonna happen. In case you're Curious, he's so gonna fail my class.
pying and pasting of my own: right into Google. Wouldn't ya know, the majority of this paper can be found on pinkmonkey.com. Yeah, you read it right, this baboon used a site called Pink Monkey to pull the banana peel over my eyes and that just APE gonna happen. In case you're Curious, he's so gonna fail my class. 
4 comments:
Ha ha, you make what is an infuriating situation funny with your wit and your twit of a student.
The great thing about today's student plagiarizers is that they tend to be careless and just copy and paste stuff that's as easy to find on the Internet as 1, 2, 3.
that amazes me. Then here I am totally freaking out hoping that I don't accidently do this. My head is swimming to make sure I don't. but if I cite, APA style all my work, then it won't be, right?
I'm telling you, some kids are so lazy.
I went back to school at 39 yrs. old. The students were anywhere from 18 yr. old newly graduated from high school to about 70 yrs old.
There were some serious younger students, but most under 25 yr. would come in to class late(wearing pajama pants no less),their cell phones would ring during class, and they never had their homework assignments or projects done on time. (I had 4 kids living at home at the time and handled it.)
Then they whined when they failed!
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