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Dear students,
Just so you know, I am not stupid. I am also not unaware of websites such as Google, about.com, and wikipedia. When you cut and paste bits of text from these sites, the odds are that I will catch you and I will be seriously pissed off that you wasted my time. I am a student, a TA, and a mother - I do not appreciate having to spend extra time on you because you seem intent on stealing other people's work. Also, all the extra time I have to spend on your plagiarized paper means I have less time to spend helping students who really ARE trying to do their work.
If it were up to me, I would give an automatic fail to anyone caught copying even ONE sentence without proper referencing. You're lucky it's not totally up to me.
Suzie
Just so you know, I am not stupid. I am also not unaware of websites such as Google, about.com, and wikipedia. When you cut and paste bits of text from these sites, the odds are that I will catch you and I will be seriously pissed off that you wasted my time. I am a student, a TA, and a mother - I do not appreciate having to spend extra time on you because you seem intent on stealing other people's work. Also, all the extra time I have to spend on your plagiarized paper means I have less time to spend helping students who really ARE trying to do their work.
If it were up to me, I would give an automatic fail to anyone caught copying even ONE sentence without proper referencing. You're lucky it's not totally up to me.
Suzie