Angry Student

[PepperElf]

Give him a grade.... on the letter he sent you.

[Dark-Star]

Give him a grade.... on the letter he sent you.

Seconded!

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

So...forgive me, but obviously this kid was lying. So he can't very well believe in the god he's threatening you with, or he'd realize that god will be grading him on all his papers.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

I think his grammar speaks for itself, considering this is a WRITING course.

My thoughts exactly.

"Before you fail me this course"

God that sounds like it was written by Nigerian scammers.

[tropicsgoddess]

I've heard of God being used as a crutch/excuse for fratching worthy subjects, but never for somebody getting a failing grade on their paper.

[Trayol]

The kid should be lucky he only recieved a zero. i know at my uni there is no tolerance for plagiarism. Professors can be lenient for an occasional forgotten citation, but for the most part students have to take their complaints to the student judicial department.

[Sheldonrs]

Close--steal (steel). Tell me you're being facetious.

Facetious? Moi? Never!

I was trying to be funny.

[taxguykarl]

The kid should be lucky he only recieved a zero. i know at my uni there is no tolerance for plagiarism. Professors can be lenient for an occasional forgotten citation, but for the most part students have to take their complaints to the student judicial department.

AGREED!
At the university I attended, the student in the OP would be flirting with permanent expulsion.

[Miss Fatale]

At this school, it's 3 strikes and your out, and this was strike number 2 -- which could be why he was so upset. Interestingly, I haven't heard from him since. Or from God.

[Racket_Man]

I had that in my 1st year as a high school science teacher - 2 girls and their parents argued, screamed and bitched about me giving them zero for plagiarising someone else's work and eachother....

They got the principal involved, but thankfully he ws on my side, knowing that I am thorough.

I showed them the paper where the plagiarism occurred from, and their work - handwritten word for word - but they made an interesting spelling error - spelling atoms as 'adams'...

The paper they plagiarised? was mine from 2 years earlier.

when I was a teaching assistant for a intro to computing class (no I was not one of the sterotypical bad ones) 20 years ago one of the assignments was to write a very simple program to do something like: read a record, if it was a certain type the print it and loop back and get another record until EOF.

I guess a group decided that this assignment was akin to rocket science and got together and made copies of one persons program down to all of the variable names and program comments including bad misspellings. they were not happy when, after discussing the situation with the class professor, they all received 0's on the assignments and yes it was that obivious

[El Pollo Guerrera]

Give him a grade.... on the letter he sent you.

Thirded!

"I consider that is it an insult that after working on my final project, you accusing accuse me of taking someone else's words to do the project. b Before you fail me the course, you need to prove to me that I copy copied it from someone else's work sources, or do you just want me to fail me the class.? God will judge you or me if I'm Wrong, because you said soIf I am wrong, may God judge me."

(How'd I do? Did I miss anything?)

[Akasa]

Hahaha, the edit of the email to English was great. After you send a corrected copy of the email tell them its obvious they didn't write it cause of the sentance structure and correct use of words.

[Kiwi]

I think his grammar speaks for itself, considering this is a WRITING course.

And the lesson here folks

Don't drink and email!

[ottid]

And the lesson here folks

Don't drink and email!

Lol!

Anyway, another student who agrees with the others, you plagiarise, you deal with the consequences. A lot of the different departments have a specific sheet that you have to sign for EACH assignment you hand in saying that you haven't cheated. Basically if it is bad enough you will automatically be kicked out. They usually put the stats out each year how many students were silly enough to do it and get caught.

My take on the "I paid for it..." is "I've paid for you to teach me, so I am going to turn up to all of my classes and do all of my work to the best of my ability, otherwise it is a complete waste of TIME and MONEY."

[Mr Hero]

My thoughts exactly.

"Before you fail me this course"

God that sounds like it was written by Nigerian scammers.

Nah. I'd say it more closely resembles the intro to Zero Wing.