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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
That's ballsy. I've had students plagiarize from Wikipedia, and my first thought is "do they really think I'm that much of an idiot? Like they're the only ones with access to the internet?"
I guess the answer is "Yes." Needless to say, the wikipedia types are the easiest to bust.
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Yeah, one of my students took the information directly from Wikipedia. It leaves me scratching my head - does he honestly think I'm a complete and utter idiot?
On the flip side, I feel bad for him though as I understand the pressures associated with doing well in school. I have an unfortunate tendency to be a little more lenient when the cause of plagiarism is stress-related rather than shear laziness. I'm still a hard-ass when it comes to plagiarism though as it is simply unacceptable and a lot of students seem to have developed the mind-set that it's okay if you don't get caught.
I always give the student 0 in the case of plagiarism
AND make them do the assignment again despite the fact that they won't get a mark for it.