UWP Lecturers Safe Assign

[Mary Cummins]

Hi folks, 

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 . . .)
 

Mary Cummins




From: Wallaceteach at aol.com
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:59:10 -0400
To: caroldo at ucr.edu; gray at scotts.net
CC: englecturers at lists.ucr.edu
Subject: Re: UWP Lecturers Safe Assign








Hey all,
    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.
    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.
Wallace Cleaves
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