Miscellaneous: Today, my AP teacher once again accused me of plagiarism. Apparently...

By dumbteacher - 23/05/2011 14:35

Today, my AP teacher once again accused me of plagiarism. Apparently the words "demise," "ultimately," and "rural," are too sophisticated for an 11th grade AP student to use and MUST have been copied from the Internet. 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 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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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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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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Not how it works...

By Anonymous - 28/02/2017 00:00 - Canada

Today, my classmate told me she can copy an article from the internet and hand that in, as long as she cites it at the end. FML

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Do your own research

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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Occam's razor

By cheatingapparently - 20/06/2020 23:06

Today, I got an A+ on a writing assignment. My teacher asked me three times if I really did write this article myself, and didn't memorise an article from the Internet. FML

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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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Notebooks out, plagiarists!

By What am I doing with my life? - 22/05/2014 16:47 - United States - Aurora

Today, I collected my students' final essays. One of them submitted a printout of a screenshot he took with his phone. Too bad a browser address bar was still in the shot, along with a "click to read more" link at the bottom. My students are too dumb and lazy to even plagiarize properly. FML

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There's always someone with a big nose who knows

By Anonymous - 15/08/2021 22:01

Today, I failed an assignment because the person I paid to do it plagiarized the entire thing. FML

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ZTD09 2

Monday 23 May 2011 19:07

Ultimately, your rural demise is imminent.

Expertfail 0

Monday 23 May 2011 19:09

Jokes on them; if you're telling the truth then you're clearly more intelligent than they think you could be, good for you!

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mcrbvb351 0

Monday 23 May 2011 21:17

11th grade? unless you went to a special school where expectations are lower, this is a fake FML. And what's wrong with copying individual words off the internet? I use thesaurus.com and that is not plagiarism.

IloveKitkatz 0

Monday 23 May 2011 21:24

Tell the principal. That happened to my friend, Because her teacher has this machine that scans your paper to see if you copied it from the Internet and it picked up words like "Civil rights, constitution, Etc." so her teacher thought she copied it from the Internet. But she told the principal, and she didn't get in ANY trouble! So tell your principal!

emoverlord 0

Monday 23 May 2011 21:25

accuse her of severe UNsophistication.

Zombieslayer1 0

Monday 23 May 2011 21:36

Haha, look at you trying to use a big word. That's so cute.

IloveKitkatz 0

Monday 23 May 2011 21:26

(Continued) And she didn't get in ANY trouble! So tell your principal!

lemonzone25 17

Monday 23 May 2011 21:29

Well that is just rediculious. She needs to shut her ****** and go back to whatever pathetic college gave her a degree.

Lorbah 0

Monday 23 May 2011 21:48

This is coming from somebody who misspelled "ridiculous?

Epikouros 31

Thursday 29 September 2011 17:45

Muphry's law strikes again!

andymus_maximus 0

Monday 23 May 2011 21:36

fyl for having a stupid teacher, op

danion 0

Monday 23 May 2011 21:41

that exact same thing happened to me. I used the words "derogatory" and "supercilious" in a sonnet and my creative writing teacher thought it wasn't mine.

hatepineapple 14

Monday 23 May 2011 21:42

So, OP, is it hot in Topeka?

Cv2 0

Monday 23 May 2011 21:44

ap is advanced placement....means the student takes a test at the end of the course and receives college credit. plagiarism happens when the source material for the assignment isn't cited correctly. are you sure it is'nt an incorrect or missing citation that caused your teacher to accuse you of plagiarism rather than the use of words? or did you just cite the source material incorrectly?