D-Man found himself in what my grandmother would have called "a world of trouble" when we learned things about his science project a few weeks ago--things like it was something he was supposed to do this quarter, not next.
While we were on the whole You're-Doing-This-Even-If-It's-Too-Late campaign, we experienced a few other frustrations along the way. After embarking on the required research about basil plants and soils, he managed to assemble some paragraphs from the required 5 sources.
I took one look at the paper and said, "You didn't just cut and paste this, did you? This is all in your own words?"
Maybe I was being unfair, but frankly, it was the phrase describing well-cultivated basil leaves as "maturing like a fine wine or scotch" that caught my eye.
8 comments:
I gather the D-Man is waaaay too young to know anything about fine wine or scotch
Yep, that sentence is definitely a red flag. And "world of hurt" is an excellent way to describe D-Man's situation. Best of luck to both of you.
Yep. You didn’t have to recharge your mother’s intuition batteries on that one. Completely busted.
I'm sorry I'm laughing, but I caught my own kids doing it before...though the lines they used were not nearly as good as that one! Once though he asked me for a word for church members and and I told him congrgants...his teacher failed his paper because of it, and I had to call her and tell her that I gave him that word and he did NOT plagerize his paper.
Oh yeah, he's waaay too young. I hope.
This particular teachers puts plagiarism higher on the list above petty theft, vandalism and even littering.
To be fair, there are some fancy gourmet products out there like basil-infused wine. You never know.
I think copy-paste functions should be disabled on every student's computer. And some professors' computers, too.
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