Miscellaneous: Today, after extensively researching how to properly use in text...

By Annoyed student - 29/04/2017 04:00

Today, after extensively researching how to properly use in text citations out of fear of my professor reporting me for citing my quotes incorrectly. She reported me instead for forgetting quotation marks on three of my proudly and properly cited quotes. 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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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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By Anonymous - 10/06/2014 15:05 - Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur

Today, I got cited for "internet plagiarism" and called to the dean's office. I'd been sitting a closed-book written exam, and my teacher had been breathing down my neck the whole time. FML

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By R - 05/09/2016 10:27 - Australia - Melbourne

Today, my teacher called a friend and me out of class and told us we had been reported for plagiarism because our answers to a problem were nearly identical, and he said that I shouldn't have shared my work. This for an assignment where significant marks were awarded for collaborating with peers. FML

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By Anonymous - 22/01/2014 21:41 - Canada - Saskatoon

Today, after I took my first set of exams, my professor posted on Twitter, scoffing at how stupid one student's answer was. The answer he quoted was one that I wrote. FML

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By F- Forever - 03/10/2017 16:00

Today, out of spite, I wrote "Ms. Piggy" instead of my professor's actual name in the heading of my essay. Guess what I forgot to do before turning it in. FML

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By Sleuth - 02/09/2018 13:00

Today, I found out why my professor accused me of not handing in an important essay before the due date. Apparently she spilled coffee all over it and didn't dare to tell me. FML

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By purpleivy - 06/09/2011 18:53 - United States

Today, after a conference with my teacher who had previously accused me of not doing my homework, she finally discovered she'd been losing it all this time. I've been getting straight Fs for a month. FML

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By frustrated - 29/06/2011 12:59 - United Kingdom

Today, my boss yelled at me for ruining the report she was supposed to write with my "terrible spelling and grammar". I've checked it thoroughly, and all of her 'corrections' are wrong. She doesn’t believe me, and is refusing to look at a dictionary. FML

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By imscrewed - 11/04/2013 07:49 - Canada - Toronto

Today, I realized that my Twitter profile was very public when my business professor made fun of student tweets in class. My tweet went, "Totally bullshitting this business report" about the report I'd just handed in, worth a large portion of my grade. FML

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Brandon Carrol 8

Saturday 29 April 2017 7:25

Well, to be fair, they aren't properly cited without quotation marks no matter how much time you spent on them

Druu 53

Saturday 29 April 2017 4:16

To be pedantic, they're "quotation marks," and not "quotations." To be less of a jerk but also to point out something relevant, block quotes do not use quotation marks. They get their own line, go one font size down, and get an extra indentation on both right and left margins.

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marsmonkey 8

Saturday 29 April 2017 19:50

I'm really sorry- that's rough. Unfortunately, if you didn't include quotation makes you did not in fact appropriately cite your sources. They indicate the difference between a cited quote and a cited paraphrase, which is pretty significant. I'm sorry that you got in trouble; I hope things go better in the future.

species4872 19

Saturday 29 April 2017 20:59

Meanwhile on Oddee, FML actually appeared in a list "11 Worst Promposals Ever "

Ughwhateverhomie 2

Sunday 30 April 2017 4:03

Learn how to write a legitimate paper. Done.

rockydify 22

Sunday 30 April 2017 8:52

I'm sorry, how are they 'properly' cited if you forgot quotation marks?!

jpd01 5

Sunday 30 April 2017 10:41

Well you should always have someone check your work before submitting it.

Levvy 22

Sunday 30 April 2017 18:24

Although reporting you was a severe overreaction, if the text in question WAS a quotation, and wasn't distinguished by something else (like being formatted as a block quote), that's still technically plagiarism. This is something a lot of college level composition courses go over. If the text isn't formatted as a quote, you're presenting it as your own. The citation only sources the information given within the text. That said, if it wasn't a quote, then you're 100% in the right, and even if it was, reporting someone for academic dishonesty over that rather than just warning them or marking them down is being grotesquely punitive.