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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Comments

I_LostTheGame42 3

his name is plagueizeyourselfe, he probably made an account to post this. Olny one peron noticed his name and commented it. btw it's possisble to plagarize yourself.

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cantthink123 12

when you post an FML without an account, you can enter a name. you don't need an account to enter a name, which is why a lot of the names reflect the FMLs

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Jirekianu2 19

You need to contact the dean. Being accused of and a report filed for plagiarism is a huge and often permanently damning thing for your academics. Show the dean and department head what you showed her.

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VivatRegina 14

Been there, except in my case the teacher told me there was no way I could have written it. This was in high school mind you, and it was no great work of art. Their standards were just incredibly low.

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swtmahogany 3

She did not want to see that u proved her wrong and made her out to b the fool

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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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Migole 36

It's nice to hear it went well for you :)

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bleedingglitter 24

Seems like they are trying to protect you which is good. Too often schools side with the teacher or don't protect the student after. I had something like that happen and the teacher made my life hell for the rest of the class.

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awkwardpenguin1 3

Note to self... Put something like that on after she marks it

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