Bad news: Your studies are over.
Bad news for you: Your studies are over. It is not because correcting your assignment took me as long as it took you to copy and paste it together. It is not because you did not treat the topic I have assigned to you but instead the topics that your sources treat. It is not because your definitions do not fit to each other and you do not explain the technical terms you use. It is because it is not good scientific work to copy and paste other people´s text together, even when you steal from Chris Rupp or from a university professor. Yes, they do write a better style than you would. But you could honor their writing skills by citing them. You instead have stolen their intellectual work.
No, making you fail is not unjust. No, it is not OK that other students get good marks for their plagiarism. And it just by error or fear that other professors do not remark plagiarism. Yes, fear. Free lecturers like me and even professors must fear students. Bad course evaluations can cause real damage. And I still do not believe that my bike fell apart without someone helping it. It is possible that one security-relevant screw loosens by itself, but not two of them at the same time.
Yes, I understand that you wish me the same damage that you experience by my "fail" given to you. But me sense of justice tells me that you simply earn the mark you merit. Lots of students have gotten really good marks from me because they did hard work. I do not expect you to do perfect work, but honest work!
I still prefer clumsily worded assignments written in own words, flavoured with queer, individual opinions to a work of plagiarism. A student is still a learner and has the right to write text that is still not perfect. But it must be his / her own work. The result of interested reading and genuine thinking. It must reflect the individual´s discovery of a topic. When you are intested in the topic you study, writing assignments can be fun.
Best wishes for your future. Maybe, you study something that really inspires you?
Incorruptible Dr. habil. Andrea, fighting for law and order in scientific assignments...
No, making you fail is not unjust. No, it is not OK that other students get good marks for their plagiarism. And it just by error or fear that other professors do not remark plagiarism. Yes, fear. Free lecturers like me and even professors must fear students. Bad course evaluations can cause real damage. And I still do not believe that my bike fell apart without someone helping it. It is possible that one security-relevant screw loosens by itself, but not two of them at the same time.
Yes, I understand that you wish me the same damage that you experience by my "fail" given to you. But me sense of justice tells me that you simply earn the mark you merit. Lots of students have gotten really good marks from me because they did hard work. I do not expect you to do perfect work, but honest work!
I still prefer clumsily worded assignments written in own words, flavoured with queer, individual opinions to a work of plagiarism. A student is still a learner and has the right to write text that is still not perfect. But it must be his / her own work. The result of interested reading and genuine thinking. It must reflect the individual´s discovery of a topic. When you are intested in the topic you study, writing assignments can be fun.
Best wishes for your future. Maybe, you study something that really inspires you?
Incorruptible Dr. habil. Andrea, fighting for law and order in scientific assignments...
AndreaHerrmann - 21. Dez, 15:23
