By Anonymous - 10/11/2009 06:43 - United States

Today, I got a paper back that was given a zero for suspected plagiarism. Everything I wrote was my own thought and analysis. My instructor basically thinks my paper is smarter than I am. He won't listen, even when I explain my thought processes throughout the piece. FML
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shekhar 0

Not simply in America or Hungary, the situation is worse in India. In India, reading or writing is not the culture of the youth in majority. I always had teachers who became teachers perhaps because they did not have anything else to do. All my papers, essays and critical reviews were questioned because my writing was "like that of an expert" (Putting it in words of one of my teachers in high school). But I always proved to convince my ideas and as I had good academic results always, so that didn't turn out to be such a larger issue for me. OP accept my heart felt empathy.

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MiseryMan 0

OP probably either left out a some key information in her post or really did plagiarize. As an English teacher, we take plagiarism very seriously so it wouldn't just be "oh, you fail because I doubt it's yours". We have our way of finding out if the student really did write the paper or not. OP is not a reliable source, so don't trust this post.

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aprestia 0

I think the sheer number of people on here with similar stories indicates this can and does happen (though of course there's no proof that it did in this instance). I think most teachers probably do have to prove the source of your work to, say, expel you on an ethics violation, but there's very little to stop them grading as subjectively as they want. Teachers are fallible and they do let their personal feelings get in the way of objective grading, they are human beings after all.

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balancekiwi 0

waddya mean - I've read this FML before - I think you stole this one as well!!! Serial plaigirist.

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whistler_fml 0

You need to go to someone higher then him: a trusted councilor, the principle or headmaster maybe. Seriously, get this thing nipped in the bud as soon as you can: suspicion of plagiarism can haunt you for the rest of your life! good luck!

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starvingxartist 0

Don't believe it. It's very possible that he thought you plagerized because it was really good. This has happened to me before too. But it doesn't take that much to find the original source, and in order to give you a zero, he'd have to find where you took it from.

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Houdeka 0

shove your **** down his throat so hard he cries and gives you an A.

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raumasy 0

That's a very unoriginal way of dealing with it, I call plagiarism!

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didi666_fml 0

What 93 said ..this is bullsht..get off this site!! teachers dont just give 0 like that...

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israelnotjacob 20

You should definitely talk to the school's administration about this. If he can't prove plagiarism then there's no good reason he should be giving you a bad grade. I'll bet this is one of those tenured teachers who just acts like he can do whatever he wants.

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bsias4ever 0

OK.I have got your solution. Go buy some bologna. If you live in a hot place. This will not be a problem. Put it allll over his car. OR Solution #2. Put a 5 pound bag of sugar in his gas tank. Then we will see who says "no". xD.... Or Just go to the dean/principal.....I recommend Solution #2.

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