it's that time of year again.
Dear student who just attempted to convince me that the three pages of plagiarism in your five-page paper were "an accident":
Dude. I am sitting here with the Wikipedia entries right in front of me.
Bonus tip: c&p-ing from Wikipedia means that not only did you plagiarize, you also have no thesis, and thus you would fail this paper even if I couldn't identify the plagiarism on sight. Which I can. Because -- I just did the math on this -- I have been calling out plagiarism in this kind of research paper since you were a toddler. Fortunately, there are enough awesome students in the world that I still enjoy my job... no thanks to you.
I pity the colleague who has to deal with you when you retake this class next year, but wow, I am not sorry that soon you will be someone else's problem.
No love,
dr. luck
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Dude. I am sitting here with the Wikipedia entries right in front of me.
Bonus tip: c&p-ing from Wikipedia means that not only did you plagiarize, you also have no thesis, and thus you would fail this paper even if I couldn't identify the plagiarism on sight. Which I can. Because -- I just did the math on this -- I have been calling out plagiarism in this kind of research paper since you were a toddler. Fortunately, there are enough awesome students in the world that I still enjoy my job... no thanks to you.
I pity the colleague who has to deal with you when you retake this class next year, but wow, I am not sorry that soon you will be someone else's problem.
No love,
dr. luck
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