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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Sizly 12

Maybe try talking to the teacher about how ridiculous it is to get accused of plagiarism when the topic is so limited anyways?

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mandyn333 10

No idea why this is down voted. I guess people don't see what your saying.

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Sizly 12

Maybe try talking to the teacher about how ridiculous it is to get accused of plagiarism when the topic is so limited anyways?

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chosha_fml 26

This subject could easily be plagarised. It's not like the answer has to be 100% true or like no-one has similar goals to OP. And the WAY it's written could be copied, even if the content has been slightly changed.

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teentee401 36

Twins wouldn't necessarily see themselves in the same place in ten years.

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Mauskau 35

Sheldon wants to be in the same place as Leonard though.

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leogachi 15

@17 Sheldon's crazy, though.

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43bubba34 25

He's not crazy. His mother had him tested.

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Quendolin 24

Your teacher expects you to be more hipster and not as mainstream.

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magicdust95 31

Glad you are not in my school. If you were then you'd probably see yourself write the exam ten years later. but yeah, fyl.

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moodyreallyrocks 27

That's just ridiculous OP! Sorry for the circumstances, hopefully everything gets better for you..

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xoxoblondee 31

I got accused of plagiarizing a paper about my family once. Even when I submitted to a plagiarism checking site that said otherwise, the "lack of citations" I included was "a dead giveaway."

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Myo_fml 20

How do you cite information from your family though? "and then, your father and grandmother danced the hula" (Mom. 1998. Cleveland).

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chinaski7628 32

21—that is how you would cite it, except you would use your mom's actual name and cite it as an interview. In academic papers, you really are supposed to cite everything that isn't an original idea. I can't imagine anyone, though, outside of a college professor, calling plagiarism on that.... Seems excessively pedantic.

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klc20071989_fml 20

There was a local college professor some years back that got fired for plagiarising himself, because he used a quote from a previous article/whatever HE wrote without citing it.

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chinaski7628 32

John Fogarty of Creedence Clear Water Revival was sued for plagiarizing himself.... Apparently one of his solo songs sounded too much like a CCR song. He lost, too. You really can plagiarize anything.... That's why I always tell my students: cite, cite, cite!

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chinaski7628 32

Ooo-- just double checked, he won the lawsuit because he was able to prove a difference in chords.

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igotds 16

Maybe your future self turned is secretly in your class and wrote about his life? I was Back to The Future day yesterday.

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Tejanoswhy 19

It's not plagiarizing if it's such a limited topic

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chinaski7628 32

I've been teaching for a long time and you'd be amazed at the ways students try to cheat. You can find almost any kind of paper (even ones like this) online. Or recycle a sibling's or friend's paper. Change a few details, and presto! A plagiarized paper. Of course, if it was an in-class, timed writing, that's a bit more difficult to cheat on. Not impossible, but difficult.

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chinaski7628 32

You use someone else's paper (or ideas/vision/story) and put your name on it. It's not like the teacher is going to track down students in 10 years and retroactively dock grades because the students aren't where they said they'd be... I think you're overthinking it. You can plagiarize anything.

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