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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RAUN 8
Archetypes exist. Certain plot lines are often used (e.g.: Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl). It might be original to you but merely a remix to someone else who has read a lot of stories. Star Wars has a lot of elements found in westerns. Harry Potter has two talented companions just as Kirk has Spock and McCoy or the Doctor has Amy and Rory. Just look at how many scripts from The Honeymooners were rehashed for The Flintstones and The Jetsons. (Apologies to the writers if the script was taken from the cartoon and rehashed by Jackie Gleason and the other cartoon.)
liaRawr 9
Don't give your ideas away you teacher will steal it ;)
withasmile 3
Any teacher that accuses students of plagiarism had best be able to back it up with solid proof. I would definitely demand an explanation and bring your writing. And if you don't get satisfaction from that, take it higher to the principal. You deserve credit for what you did, you don't want your teacher to think you would do such a thing (it will him/her to be biased against future work most likely), for other students' sakes you need to hold this teacher accountable so they don't ever take thd charge of plagiarism lightly again. Speak up!
MariaRose582 7
Show him what you have written, and if that isn't enough proof... Ask to see the actual myth!
KaitoVSTheWorld 2
Hey I have a few questions. 1) Do you go to wentzville middle 2) Are you in 7th grade and 3) Have Miss. Mogerman as your com. arts teacher
din365 5
my brother had a teacher outright accuse him of plagiarism because a short story was really good. It happens.
slowlybreakingme 14
...Chuck Shurley??
o0NUFFoSAID0o 4
I have to write a myth in my English class. "due two weeks ago"
godholio 2
That doesn't make it original.
NamelessFace 22
I've always been paranoid of writing something that someone else already wrote by pure coincidence and being accused of plagiarism.