Today, I got a message from my teacher about my homework. We were supposed to write an original myth explaining a natural event. My teacher bumped my grade for it down to a C for copying a myth that already exists. My myth was based on an original story I've been writing for two years. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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
Today, I was copying an assignment from my friend and was feeling confident that I was gonna pass. I later found out I copied his name too, so the teacher failed us both. He won't talk to me now. FML
Today, I found out why my history grade is so low: the kid in front of me takes my homework, writes his name on it, and passes it off as his own. FML
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
Today, I asked my professor what happened to the assignment I gave him several weeks ago. Turns out he lost it, and graded me zero as a result. Now if I want a mark, he says I'll have to hand-write it all over again, but that I "probably shouldn't bother," because it was "a bit shit, really." FML
Today, I got a writing assignment back. After meeting with my professor specially after class and meticulously combing through every word of that paper, I got a low D. Turns out, he graded me down on every suggestion of his that I took. FML
Today, my teacher read my story about a haunted house for a class assignment. She liked it very much and turned it in to the office to be sent into a state writing competition. An hour later, I was called to the office where the guidance counselor called my work "disturbing" and said I "need help". FML
Today, I got an A+ on a writing assignment. My teacher asked me three times if I really did write this article myself, and didn't memorise an article from the Internet. FML
Today, I turned in an essay after staying up late to work on it. I was away when the teacher assigned it, so I'd asked my friend what the subject was. It transpires that she'd given me the wrong one, all because she was mad at me for not returning her pencil. FML
Today, I failed an assignment because the person I paid to do it plagiarized the entire thing. FML
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Neesalun 20
Could you show him your story?
samdab 11
well on the bright side you must be an amazing writer if you're teacher thinks you copied, and good luck with your book!
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Neesalun 20
Could you show him your story?
Squizanaught 8
I think the point is not the homework grade being reduced but the fact that the op's 'original' story is not as original as he thought. Especially after labouring on it for two years.
BRLHP 24
Well put #14.
okaydisarray 17
OP isn't clear on that, 14. If you take the name used on this FML (WritesTooWell) into account, it's entirely possible that he or she feels that a better grade was deserved and that the instructor believed the myth was not original due to the quality of writing. That's how I read it, but I could be completely wrong.
suboy 10
This reminds of the time my teacher gave me a C on my paper because it sounded to smart for it to be my own so i clearly must have copied it. I had never felt so hurt before.
MermaidAnnariea 10
#40, i had something similar happen, and i named it "Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia", which is an album by Dimmu Borgir. he looked it up. and the next day, the first thing my teacher said in class was "How the hell did you end up listening to Norwegian black metal??" it was rather amusing to explain my tastes in music.
jipster 11
Just tell him
AKGirlinSD 20
Most likely OP did. If OP has it on his/her laptop, then OP would be able to show proof of his/her start date. OP needs to right click on the file and show the Properties, in which it will state the date that the file was created.
samdab 11
well on the bright side you must be an amazing writer if you're teacher thinks you copied, and good luck with your book!
AKGirlinSD 20
Something kind of similar happened to me when I was 5. My elementary school had a creative writing competition for the school's newsletter. I won, beating out every kid that tried, and my story was published. But it took my mom a week to prove that I did, in fact, write the story all by myself. It sucks when you put in a ton of effort just to be shot down and questioned.
noir_heart 8
Ugh, I'm a writer as well and I hate coming up with what seems like a genius idea at the time and finding out that someone else beat me to publishing it. But it's even worse for someone to think you copied something that didn't even exist before you came up with it because you have barely any proof that it's actually original.
nature_girl_08 14
51: Being a writer myself, I think that's the dilemma of all new authors: coming up with something that is at least original enough to be called your own without being accused of plagiarism. It's like the whole "Simpsons did it" thing. There's not a whole lot out there that HASN'T been done in some way before.
littlerawr 13
Comment moderated for rule-breaking.
Take it as a compliment- you write too amazingly!
BellaBear90 27
You, do not.
cmac86 24
you may need to show the original work. interesting assignment, though; I wish my teachers had assigned that back when I was in school.
Dobhrionn 10
Approach him and ask why he thinks its plagiarism.
TheDrifter 24
Perhaps because it's a myth he's heard before, but with a name changed. Sorta like telling the tale of Rumplestiltskin, but calling him Dale.
SanpakuEyes 18
It is possible to independently come up with the same idea as another person. I would ask the teacher which myth they were referring to, to see if that indeed happened.
AnOriginalName 19
Too true. OP could have also unconsciously picked up a lot of influence for their own story from another established story.
GoodLookingGeese 10
It happened to me, expect in my case they failed me because they could not believe I didn't stole it. I confronted the teacher and principal of the school and the owner of all the schools from this company. They couldn't prove it, they even tested me very specifically from every word and they had to agree with me. I fought my way to straight A++ and from now on I had easier life on almost every class during my time at school.
clrichmond2009 24
I can see why they didn't believe you. Your grammar is atrocious.
kingdomgirl94 29
Christ, yeah I can see why they thought you plagiarized it...
RedPillSucks 33
You guys do realize that this is not an english-only site and he very well may have written the story in a non-english native language.
shellzy 20
That doesn't necessarily mean your original story isn't, well, original. The catch 22 with mythology is that it's both formulaic and everything has pretty much already been done.
simplysarcastics 26
I had this happened to me in my senior year. I did my senior report on my medical condition, I wrote from my own experience and who knows it better than me, since I live it. The dushe bag put a zero on my paper for plagiarizing... I took my paper to my principal and complained, turns out the teacher just wanted to give me a hard time. Op talk to someone about your grade, and prove its your work
simplysarcastics 26
Lol I meant happen, was typing fast.
Cr1spyBacon8r 7
But you were right...