What kind of twisted freak am I?
I'm averaging about 7 papers a night in grading, folks, and part of the problem is that 4 out of 7 contain some form of plagiarism, despite the fact that I taught an entire week's worth of lessons about plagiarism, including powerpoint presentations, handouts, personal conferences where I critiqued their rough drafts and pointed out plagiarism, and sent a letter out to parents with links to the OWL writing lab at Purdue and other plagiarism websites and an attachment of my powerpoint presentation. What more can I do?
That said, is it strange that I am delighting in sifting through the papers with highlighter in hand and googling my heart out (because PISD doesn't see Turnitin or any other software as worth their money) to find each and every plagiaristic element of their papers.
Stranger yet, I am actually enjoying the process of looking up all the suspicious parts. I've got them color coded by site and giggle manaically every time I print out a hard copy of the webpage so that I can slam it down as Exhibit A in my trial when I fail them. [Don't laugh. I was put on "trial" last year for giving a student, who didn't do a damn thing, below a 50, since the district policy is to give no lower than a 50 to any student].
hmmmmmaahaWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
Hey, I wonder if there is a quiz on what kind of twisted freak I am.
That said, is it strange that I am delighting in sifting through the papers with highlighter in hand and googling my heart out (because PISD doesn't see Turnitin or any other software as worth their money) to find each and every plagiaristic element of their papers.
Stranger yet, I am actually enjoying the process of looking up all the suspicious parts. I've got them color coded by site and giggle manaically every time I print out a hard copy of the webpage so that I can slam it down as Exhibit A in my trial when I fail them. [Don't laugh. I was put on "trial" last year for giving a student, who didn't do a damn thing, below a 50, since the district policy is to give no lower than a 50 to any student].
hmmmmmaahaWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!
Hey, I wonder if there is a quiz on what kind of twisted freak I am.
Labels: rant
posted by Cranky at 5:49 PM
5 Comments:
I hate to say it, but I also get a little bit of sick pleasure from catching someone. Their reaction to being busted, too, is a little enjoyable.
--two shirts
Holy crap! The research papers I'm grading are palgiarized out the ass. What is with these people?
--twoshirts
I know. It's unbelievable. They just cut and paste. I'd say they spend about 2 minutes on the paper.
Just came back from scaring(and I mean scaring)my dual credit students about plagiarizing their research papers.
I only wish you could have seen it.
--twoshirts
Will you come scare mine?
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