Miscellaneous: Today, my older brother thinks typing out a Wikipedia article...

By areyouserious - 17/11/2014 03:46 - United States - Fresno

Today, my older brother thinks typing out a Wikipedia article for an essay is not plagiarism, because he didn't "copy and paste" it. He's in college. FML

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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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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 - 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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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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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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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 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 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 - 12/07/2014 16:09 - United Kingdom - Crawley

Today, my brother decided to help me artificially age some of my artwork by singeing the edges slightly. Apparently "my brother set fire to my homework" isn't a valid excuse. 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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devildog562 33

Monday 17 November 2014 16:42

Considering Wikipedia is often wrong and teachers can easily tell when sites are plagiarized, let him do it and learn his lesson.

Kiki242 19

Monday 17 November 2014 16:44

He is in for some trouble. Plagiarism is not taken lightly. Also, how does he NOT know what plagiarism is? My language arts teachers and English teachers have been hammering that in since elementary school.

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henrylikestreats 22

Monday 17 November 2014 17:04

Don't say anything. Watch him freak out when he gets his paper back. Instant entertainment.

ohSNAPyall 26

Monday 17 November 2014 18:11

What a good sibling you are.

Blippety 23

Monday 17 November 2014 17:09

I used to think this... when I was in primary school.

xFiiRe 19

Monday 17 November 2014 17:19

**** his life not yours!

PennyLane27 32

Monday 17 November 2014 17:41

**** OP's life for having to grow up around this idiot!

WCARlover 34

Monday 17 November 2014 17:27

Wow. I'd do everything I could to ensure he knows how serious that is and that he will likely be kicked out of school if he submits that.

Ichiya 29

Monday 17 November 2014 21:32

Let the idiot fail. Us intelligent people don't want them hanging around us anyway.

itsme82 18

Monday 17 November 2014 17:41

Put it to him this way. Would he go into a store and steal? No? Then why is it okay to steal someone else's work? You need to tell him how serious plagiarism is.

pratikp03 22

Monday 17 November 2014 17:44

He an imbecile..***drax voice ***

worldclassrager 39

Monday 17 November 2014 17:48

Wikipedia is editable...so of that it might be a 85-90% plagiarism...aside the point he really wasted his time

HairIsEverything 15

Monday 17 November 2014 19:06

Actually it was changed, you can't edit information anymore.

Attacksloth 33

Monday 17 November 2014 18:36

That's one thing I never learned in high school - proper citation. I learned very quickly though that plagiarism can result in failing a course in the best case scenario and getting criminally charged in the worst case. If I tried that crap in my current program I'd get my ass handed to me.