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By Anonymous - 10/11/2009 06:43 - United States

Today, I got a paper back that was given a zero for suspected plagiarism. Everything I wrote was my own thought and analysis. My instructor basically thinks my paper is smarter than I am. He won't listen, even when I explain my thought processes throughout the piece. FML

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By Anonymous - 31/10/2011 10:09 - United Kingdom

Today, I turned in an overdue English assignment at college. My instructor accused me of plagiarism, writing that my sentence structure was "TO" good. Seriously? FML

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By stupid - 24/12/2018 18:00

Today, after turning in a paper that I worked really hard on, I got it back with a grade of 0. In the feedback section, my professor wrote: “In all my 37 years of teaching, this is by far the worst essay I have ever read.” FML

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By ScreweD- - 16/11/2015 21:39 - United States - San Francisco

Today, I got a writing assignment back. After meeting with my professor specially after class and meticulously combing through every word of that paper, I got a low D. Turns out, he graded me down on every suggestion of his that I took. FML

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By R - 05/09/2016 10:27 - Australia - Melbourne

Today, my teacher called a friend and me out of class and told us we had been reported for plagiarism because our answers to a problem were nearly identical, and he said that I shouldn't have shared my work. This for an assignment where significant marks were awarded for collaborating with peers. FML

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By Anonymous - 06/02/2012 21:10 - United States

Today, I asked my professor what happened to the assignment I gave him several weeks ago. Turns out he lost it, and graded me zero as a result. Now if I want a mark, he says I'll have to hand-write it all over again, but that I "probably shouldn't bother," because it was "a bit shit, really." FML

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By Anonymous - 10/04/2021 13:01 - Australia - Sydney

Today, I got yelled at for 10 minutes by my head of department for failing one of my students for plagiarism, because, "we can't be sure." It was my work he plagiarised, but because it's not in our system, it doesn't count. FML

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Words which could only be your own

By kickout - 11/07/2021 19:59

Today, after I'd being sick all day, my boyfriend volunteered to do my very long sociology paper. I was later notified by my professor that the paper I'd submitted was completely plagiarized. FML

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By jzidar24 - 22/10/2015 02:37 - United States - Bloomfield Hills

Today, at school, I got in trouble for plagiarizing on a paper. The subject of said paper was where I see myself in ten years. FML

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Vote of confidence

By SMRT - 13/01/2010 06:08 - Canada

Today, I finished my position paper for my social studies class and read it to my mom to get her opinion on it. After I'm done reading it, she asks me if I copied it from somewhere because it sounded very professional and smart, and it didn't sound like me. FML

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By KateHGW - 09/06/2021 00:01

Today, I handed in an internship assignment that I have been working on for months. Once submitted, a pop-up showed, stating the assignment was 100% plagiarized. What was it plagiarized from? A student paper. My own, to be more specific - the exact same paper I had uploaded seconds before. FML

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firebird94 0

Tuesday 10 November 2009 12:06

i hate people like that...

shekhar 0

Tuesday 10 November 2009 12:13

Not simply in America or Hungary, the situation is worse in India. In India, reading or writing is not the culture of the youth in majority. I always had teachers who became teachers perhaps because they did not have anything else to do. All my papers, essays and critical reviews were questioned because my writing was "like that of an expert" (Putting it in words of one of my teachers in high school). But I always proved to convince my ideas and as I had good academic results always, so that didn't turn out to be such a larger issue for me. OP accept my heart felt empathy.

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doublerdoubleu 0

Wednesday 2 December 2009 20:22

The same thing happened to me... kind of. I was doing dual enrollment at a community college my junior year in high school, and my English professor questioned me about my paper because "no college student can write like that, let alone a HIGH SCHOOL student." If it was so great, why did I get a C-? I'm very empathetic toward you.

itsametaphorfool 0

Tuesday 19 January 2010 8:35

yeah, the grade i got wasn't even that great. it was a C/B (i.. don't know why he put two grades down). HEY, NEW SEMESTER, WHO GIVES A SHIT RIGHT?

sb44480 0

Monday 15 February 2010 23:38

the only reason i said you derserved it was because the there would be 1069 votes haha 69

varkey 7

Wednesday 31 March 2010 6:08

wth... did he already know you were smart before? because this has happened to a kid i know before, when a teacher called him out, but that kid was a frickin genius so the teacher rightly believed that it was his work. anyway, your teacher has absolutely no right to do this unless he has hard proof (turnitin.com, etc.). since he obviously doesn't, go to the principal, or sue in the worst case. that sucks FYL

iTwitch 5

Friday 12 November 2010 15:30

werd

I_am_a_person 0

Saturday 26 March 2011 23:39

I hate it when teachers act like that. my freshman year of high school, my english teacher basically told my parents that because i had a learning disability, i didn't belong in his honors class. I later got a 100 on a paper and i am now 16th in my class of 600.