By ninjakomodo - 13/11/2012 21:16 - United States

Today, my English professor accused me of plagiarizing a poem I submitted, because she'd read it online earlier that day. The poem was mine; I posted it after writing it for her class, and even after logging into the site to prove it, she reported me to the school. FML
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ninjakomodo 3

OP here, just for all of the people talking about self plagiarism, I checked. My university does not have that clause anywhere within the rules. I read through the entire thing and even checked with the legal department. I'm sure they will put it in after this. I have gone to the dean and they have forced the teacher to drop the case and give me the grade I deserved. They also decided, due to suggestion of the department head, that the department head himself will be grading everything that I submit to that teacher for the rest of the semester, and that I will not be able to take classes with that teacher anymore. I'm sure they will be evaluating their plagiarism rules more, and putting in a clause for self plagiarism, but we will see what happens. Luckily, I only have 2 more semesters there before I'm out of that school for good.

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Top comments

cat1230 4

Sometimes teachers are not as bright as you expect them to be.

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airforce987 20

What a bitch, I'm sure the head of your department will believe you

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ballbearing 10

And you deserve it. Any university student should be familiar with the plagiarism policies. Hopefully ignorance will get you on probation and not removed from school.

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UsagiArwen 23

How does this guy deserve it? Op said that he submitted it to the website that his teacher had found it and read. If anything, he's plagiarizing himself, and okay, perhaps he could have and should have waited until after having turned it in to the teacher, but that doesn't negate the fact that she should have accepted it once he LOGGED IN to the very same website on which he POSTED his poem. Hopefully the school will see that it is his own account, and that he used a work that he submitted in the first place. Don't preach about plagiarism if he didn't plagiarize.

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TaffyMichele 9

Plagiarizing himself is still a problem, though, because community colleges and universities have rules that don't allow self-plagiarism.

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iwadasn 32

I don't see why 114 is getting thumbed down. Many plagiarism policies say you can't submit work that was submitted anywhere else--online, for another class, for a competition, etc.--so if OP had been familiar with the school's policy, this wouldn't have happened.

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ballbearing 10

Because plagiarism policies clearly state you cannot reuse previous published material even that that is written by yourself. You do not publish your work online and then submit it. Therefore OP deserves it.

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OneLegChase 5

Damn, that really sucks! Maybe this will prove her to be a fool when her boss sees it.

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Aelle1209 6

This reminds me of an incident from when I was in sixth grade. I entered a writing competition and worked really hard on my paper, only to find out that I'd only made second place. Only, when the first place paper was read aloud to the school, I realized that it was not as good as mine-- and I found out that I'd been given second place because the person judging it believed it was too good to be written by a sixth grader and she believed that my mom had written it for me, despite my teaching vouching for me (I had a very high proficiency in English for my age, which she knew). After the competition my mom spoke to the judge, who still didn't believe her. Shit like that is what discourages children from excelling in school.

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Mirorbo 26

I have heard about this nonsense. A little darling needed feedback on her work and I suggested posting in Google Docs so we could comment on it appropriately for her. She said she wasn't allowed, not even in Google Docs, because if it's online anywhere, it will be considered plagiarism, even if it's her posting the piece. I'm starting to think teachers are forgetting what plagiarism is.

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abbylaur 4

I would go on that site after school and post: guess what bitch? I really did post it.

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PhishloverA 14

I heard that in college if you get accused of plagiarism you're basically screwed. Maybe it depends on the college? I don't necessarily believe that though, so hopefully the people in the higher positions of your college won't be as stupid as your professor and they'll believe you. Maybe your professor just hates you and doesn't want to admit she's wrong. It sucks, but sometimes you have to deal with hotheads like that

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poindexter25 5

It's funny that your name is plagiarize yourself hmmmm

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CharresBarkrey 15

And it's ironic that yours is poindexter.

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