Today, my English professor accused me of plagiarizing a poem I submitted, because she'd read it online earlier that day. The poem was mine; I posted it after writing it for her class, and even after logging into the site to prove it, she reported me to the school. FML
ninjakomodo tells us more.
OP here, just for all of the people talking about self plagiarism, I checked. My university does not have that clause anywhere within the rules. I read through the entire thing and even checked with the legal department. I'm sure they will put it in after this. I have gone to the dean and they have forced the teacher to drop the case and give me the grade I deserved. They also decided, due to suggestion of the department head, that the department head himself will be grading everything that I submit to that teacher for the rest of the semester, and that I will not be able to take classes with that teacher anymore. I'm sure they will be evaluating their plagiarism rules more, and putting in a clause for self plagiarism, but we will see what happens. Luckily, I only have 2 more semesters there before I'm out of that school for good.
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cat1230 4
Sometimes teachers are not as bright as you expect them to be.
airforce987 20
What a bitch, I'm sure the head of your department will believe you
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punkgurl1987 6
Teachers a ****
I_LostTheGame42 3
his name is plagueizeyourselfe, he probably made an account to post this. Olny one peron noticed his name and commented it. btw it's possisble to plagarize yourself.
cantthink123 12
when you post an FML without an account, you can enter a name. you don't need an account to enter a name, which is why a lot of the names reflect the FMLs
Jirekianu2 19
You need to contact the dean. Being accused of and a report filed for plagiarism is a huge and often permanently damning thing for your academics. Show the dean and department head what you showed her.
VivatRegina 14
Been there, except in my case the teacher told me there was no way I could have written it. This was in high school mind you, and it was no great work of art. Their standards were just incredibly low.
ellieweezer 2
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Foxy_On_Fire 21
She's a bitch
swtmahogany 3
She did not want to see that u proved her wrong and made her out to b the fool
ninjakomodo 3
OP here, just for all of the people talking about self plagiarism, I checked. My university does not have that clause anywhere within the rules. I read through the entire thing and even checked with the legal department. I'm sure they will put it in after this. I have gone to the dean and they have forced the teacher to drop the case and give me the grade I deserved. They also decided, due to suggestion of the department head, that the department head himself will be grading everything that I submit to that teacher for the rest of the semester, and that I will not be able to take classes with that teacher anymore. I'm sure they will be evaluating their plagiarism rules more, and putting in a clause for self plagiarism, but we will see what happens. Luckily, I only have 2 more semesters there before I'm out of that school for good.
TcheQ 12
yay ^_^
Migole 36
It's nice to hear it went well for you :)
bleedingglitter 24
Seems like they are trying to protect you which is good. Too often schools side with the teacher or don't protect the student after. I had something like that happen and the teacher made my life hell for the rest of the class.
awkwardpenguin1 3
Note to self... Put something like that on after she marks it
The_9th_Doctor 18
what a bitch