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Originally Posted by Cerebral
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.
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I like the idea of where you make the student re do the assignment. Hopefully they learn their lesson from this.
Also, do you ask why they did it?
Btw, what subject do you teach?