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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Mary,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I usually file 10-15 academic integrity cases per quarter
when teaching 1A and 1B (though fewer with 1C). </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>This quarter, I have 12 again, teaching 1B, so from my
numbers things are about the same. (Of course, it's possible that I'm blurry
eyed enough this term that I'm missing the spike.) </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>However, the dishonest students this term seem
<EM>lazier</EM>. They're more inclined to recycle papers they wrote for previous
classes. For instance, in previous terms, it was unusual for me to have even 1
recycle attempt per term. This quarter I've had three. Due to Safe Assignments,
those are fairly easy to catch, so it might be safe to say they're easier to nab
this term than in previous terms. For that, at least, I'm grateful.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Oh, I will comment on one other apparent trend: Starting
last year, they've seemed more inclined to fight (even against clear-cut
evidence), more likely to freak out, and more likely to call their parents. This
term I've had one who threatened suicide during conference, and one who called
her father, a lawyer. Last year, I had an international student fight all the
way to the very bitter end, through the whole SJA process. Up to that point, I'd
had a 100% confession rate, without any Jack Bauer moves required. I'm still
sort of bummed about losing that. I suspect that part of what's going on
might be that students may be becoming more open with each other about a
lot of things, and thus more inclined to discuss their plagiarizing with
buddies, so that when I confront someone, he's sitting there thinking, "Hell,
everyone else does it. Why is Mr. Scott picking on <EM>me</EM>?" If they
tend to think of their actions as typical, they might be more inclined to
fight. Something like that.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I'd love to hear from other instructors about what
they're seeing, by the way. We can't share details (student privacy), but
certainly the <EM>patterns</EM> can be illuminating.</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>- Gray</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=marycaroline7@hotmail.com
href="mailto:marycaroline7@hotmail.com">Mary Cummins</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=wallaceteach@aol.com
href="mailto:wallaceteach@aol.com">wallaceteach@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=englecturers@lists.ucr.edu
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 22, 2009 9:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: UWP Lecturers Safe
Assign</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Hi folks, <BR><BR>Here's a separate question. Has anyone
else been finding more plagiarism cases than usual this quarter? I
usually find two or three, but this quarter it shot up to seven. (I
teach a whole class period about avoiding plagiarism, and we go over it four
other times in class throughout the quarter, so I don't think it's ignorance .
. .)<BR> <BR>Mary Cummins<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>
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From: <A href="mailto:Wallaceteach@aol.com">Wallaceteach@aol.com</A><BR>Date:
Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:59:10 -0400<BR>To: <A
href="mailto:caroldo@ucr.edu">caroldo@ucr.edu</A>; gray@scotts.net<BR>CC:
englecturers@lists.ucr.edu<BR>Subject: Re: UWP Lecturers Safe
Assign<BR><BR><FONT id=EC_role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>
<DIV>Hey all,</DIV>
<DIV> Just weighing in here, but if the students don't
follow the requirement I can't see how we have any choice but to fail
them. I think Gray's ideas are very compelling. As to the other
comment, I don't really understand the argument about it being unfair to
require students to submit papers to safe assign, but I will say it is unfair
to the other students, who did fulfill the requirements, to not penalize those
students who don't.</DIV>
<DIV> We aren't doing them any favors if we don't hold
these students to standards. That kind of thinking has led to
innumerable problems and to a general lack of responsibility I think we can
all agree has had disastrous consequences. Also, this is a great and
relatively painless way to learn a valuable lesson.</DIV>
<DIV>Wallace Cleaves</DIV></FONT><BR><FONT
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