I am an #adjunct at a university where I teach one online #PoliticalScience course. Currently grading assignments and writing comments like this: "Too perfect to read like anything other than a copy-and-paste job".
@Florence
These are undergrads in a gen ed course, but still, attribution ought to be a thing, no?
@publickovacs Yes, of course. Otherwise, it's really the same as 'many people say' or 'they say'. THAT used to drive me nuts too. My previous post was tongue in cheek really. With undergrads I used to say 'do you really think I don't read any of the textbooks you're copying from?'
@publickovacs They always used to copy from the same books. They weren't even original in their plagiarising!
@publickovacs - I tend to tell students that the assignment was to write a paper, not to assemble a paper.
@a2dox
OMG I love that line!
@publickovacs - feel free to use it. š
@a2dox
Wow thank you! It looks like I will have *plenty* of opportunities to use it
@publickovacs - thatās the sad part. Best of luck with your grading.
@publickovacs They always feel they're the first to invent the wheel, don't they? lol
@Pat_Walrond
It feels like the 'wheel' is Google in which they find something and then think I will never know. Because I am dense like that š¤¦āāļø
@publickovacs As we would say here, you mussee have "Foolbert" stamp on your forehead"... haha
@publickovacs
I required students to submit papers to me via the course dropbox online.
It was easy enough to pick up a sentence and search it... and too often it sadly came back with the document from which the sentence was lifted.
AFTER showing the class how to research and cite properly, I had no time or patience for plagiarism.
@dougthecoach
My challenge is that my days as a full time prof are in the rear view and this is a campus on which I have never set foot. If I had, I could've done my schtick where I tell them that at the end of poli sci grad school, I had a full time gig teaching freshman composition so I am way better than TurnItIn and its ilk
@publickovacs
Yes... one of the reasons why I took early retirement from my college gig was because the average quality of work submitted was declining.
The best work mind you kept getting better, but the bottom 25% were getting worse and worse.
@dougthecoach
Can confirm re: quality, although I didn't retire. My institution collapsed financially and they laid off 40%+ of the faculty, many of us tenured profs
@publickovacs When I was overseeing PhD's, I used to regularly write 'remember, copying from one source is plagiarism, copying from many sources is research'!!