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    the best story i have in regards to cheating is when we were being trained and told how to use turnitin, we were told to not omit quoted materials from the plagiarism check. we thought that was strange; why include sourced material (ie, anything in quotation marks) in the report? wouldn’t that just flag the software more?

    turns out, there was a big cheating scandal in previous years where students would put quotation marks at the very beginning and very end of their essays, then change the color of those quotation marks to white. Professors don’t see the quotation marks, and the entire essay is basically seen as a quote, so it reads as 0% plagiarized. you can copy a whole essay from the internet and have it be a 0% plagiarized every time

    kids put more effort into cheating than doing the work

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    That’s hilarious lol.

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    if you ain't cheatin you ain't tryin

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mertron View Post
    the best story i have in regards to cheating is when we were being trained and told how to use turnitin, we were told to not omit quoted materials from the plagiarism check. we thought that was strange; why include sourced material (ie, anything in quotation marks) in the report? wouldn’t that just flag the software more?

    turns out, there was a big cheating scandal in previous years where students would put quotation marks at the very beginning and very end of their essays, then change the color of those quotation marks to white. Professors don’t see the quotation marks, and the entire essay is basically seen as a quote, so it reads as 0% plagiarized. you can copy a whole essay from the internet and have it be a 0% plagiarized every time

    kids put more effort into cheating than doing the work
    LMAO!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mertron View Post
    the best story i have in regards to cheating is when we were being trained and told how to use turnitin, we were told to not omit quoted materials from the plagiarism check. we thought that was strange; why include sourced material (ie, anything in quotation marks) in the report? wouldn’t that just flag the software more?

    turns out, there was a big cheating scandal in previous years where students would put quotation marks at the very beginning and very end of their essays, then change the color of those quotation marks to white. Professors don’t see the quotation marks, and the entire essay is basically seen as a quote, so it reads as 0% plagiarized. you can copy a whole essay from the internet and have it be a 0% plagiarized every time

    kids put more effort into cheating than doing the work
    You know you're on forum that started with FFXI, right? You shouldnt be surprised that people will cheat 2 win.

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    You wouldn't know that though because you've demonstrably never picked up a book nor educated yourself on the matter. Let me guess, overweight housewife?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mertron View Post
    the best story i have in regards to cheating is when we were being trained and told how to use turnitin, we were told to not omit quoted materials from the plagiarism check. we thought that was strange; why include sourced material (ie, anything in quotation marks) in the report? wouldn’t that just flag the software more?

    turns out, there was a big cheating scandal in previous years where students would put quotation marks at the very beginning and very end of their essays, then change the color of those quotation marks to white. Professors don’t see the quotation marks, and the entire essay is basically seen as a quote, so it reads as 0% plagiarized. you can copy a whole essay from the internet and have it be a 0% plagiarized every time

    kids put more effort into cheating than doing the work
    LOL

    We were doing a racism in America paper that was being super broken down because it was their first time doing a multi-page research paper. We were only on creating subtopics (about three days into announcing the paper) when I got an email from a girl sharing her paper which wouldn’t even be scheduled to be due for another month and a half. She literally found some rando paper on the internet and copy and pasted it word for word and gave it to me. The fucking header even had the other person’s name and teacher on it.




    Also, in related spam comments, just letting you know, mert, that when kids come in not knowing how to do MLA, we tried, oh we fucking tried. I spent daily for three+ months having the kids’ warmup be a quote with an author and page number and asked them to put in into MLA format.....they still can’t put the fucking period in the right spot.


    They also legit think I have a personal issue with comic sans and think other teachers will be ok with it, so gl to all the profs out there. My hat is off to you and your struggles.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NynJa View Post
    You know you're on forum that started with FFXI, right? You shouldnt be surprised that people will cheat 2 win.
    and those students shouldn’t be surprised when they get banned for duping salvage

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ksandra View Post
    LOL

    We were doing a racism in America paper that was being super broken down because it was their first time doing a multi-page research paper. We were only on creating subtopics (about three days into announcing the paper) when I got an email from a girl sharing her paper which wouldn’t even be scheduled to be due for another month and a half. She literally found some rando paper on the internet and copy and pasted it word for word and gave it to me. The fucking header even had the other person’s name and teacher on it.




    Also, in related spam comments, just letting you know, mert, that when kids come in not knowing how to do MLA, we tried, oh we fucking tried. I spent daily for three+ months having the kids’ warmup be a quote with an author and page number and asked them to put in into MLA format.....they still can’t put the fucking period in the right spot.


    They also legit think I have a personal issue with comic sans and think other teachers will be ok with it, so gl to all the profs out there. My hat is off to you and your struggles.
    it really never matters how often i go over MLA format, citation, the works cited page, etc; they will never get it right, ever

    it’s really baffling to me, it’s not that hard. i even explain how to do hanging indent, yet they refuse to do it, possibly just to spite me

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    also i just got done grading a final exam where the student referred to me as the best english professor ever, so that was an easy 100

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    Literally sites that will quote and cite for you properly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Milkster View Post
    Literally sites that will quote and cite for you properly.
    Literally teach that and come back to us when the kids don’t remember.

    They actually will search on google.com to get to their gmail instead of typing gmail.com and/or hitting the 9 box grid. Doesn’t matter how many times you teach them.

    Easybib has an add on for google docs that will cite for you. They can’t handle it.

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    academic search engines like ebscohost have citation tools for every article in the database, already done for you, sorted by style (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc) and students will still not do it properly even copy and pasting from the site

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    They don't deserve to pass.

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    i am not cruel enough to fail freshmen over the works cited page

    yet

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    i'm legitimately going to jump into traffic if i have to TA another quarter i don't know how you do it Mert

    give me back my lab and fuck off pi beta thota

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    having very low self esteem helps

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    what if you are vain in your appearance and arrogant in your abilities but hollowed out by a deep, abiding self-hatred

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    asking for a friend

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    Word fucking has a citation tool. Citethisforme.com. If you can't fucking MLA after being taught you're too stupid to be in higher education.


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