By Anonymous - 10/06/2014 15:05 - Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur

Today, I got cited for "internet plagiarism" and called to the dean's office. I'd been sitting a closed-book written exam, and my teacher had been breathing down my neck the whole time. FML
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Same thing different taste

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Did you try to hit undo when you were called to the office?

School system for you. They take plagiarism seriously.

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I highly doubt it's possible to plagiarize a written exam with nothing to plagiarize

Sure you can! Plagiarism is stealing someone's work without citation, not copying it work for word. Think of it like playing Twinkle Twinkle in a composition exam.

***** sake. A gold star sticker for whoever can spell 'broken educational system'.

If I did, though, I'd be committing internet plagiarism because the answer is right there. And I don't wanna get sent to the dean's office.

I love how everyone instantly goes with "**** the teacher" and "our education system is ruined" etc, but also forget that for work to be deemed to be guilty of plagiarism requires PROOF. No Academic Dean will uphold a decision based on "I don't like this student, so I'm going to screw them over"

I like your optimistic view of the world, however you are basing that on the fact this is a fair world. It isn't and there are plenty teachers, deans and school administrators out there who will happily cover for a colleague without ever having seen any sort of proof whatsoever...

Not to be rude, but I'm actually basing my perspective on having been involved as a professor in a number of academic institutions over the last 8 years. I've had to take plagiarism and academic misconduct through the system and it is an incredibly time consuming and rigorous process to prove a student has plagiarized information. Students may take such matters to court, so there is no room for us to just "look out for our own".

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The American school system is one of the worst in the world (assuming you're American). I feel very badly for people who have to deal with that high of a level of under qualified educators, who respond to intelligence by immediately assuming plagiarism...

it may seem like the worst because we educate the entire population and on those education ranking reports we don't just put ap student s like some countries do

It's possible (although unlikely) to plagiarize while in a closed room if you memorized the information.

should of gone smoothly with the dean then

must of been those google glasses you were wearing that tipped the teacher off. :P