I'm a grad student TA, and I have already faced a ridiculous number of plagiarism cases in my short tenure TAing for political science classes at a medium-sized public university in New York State. For me, this is especially bothersome because, not only am I an aspiring academic, but I'm known as the Citation Master in the department... I would sleep with the Chicago Manual of Style under my pillow if it weren't so thick. As a TA, I don't have much control over the assignments themselves or the punishments for plagiarism, but I do have control over how I present the problem to my students. We already require that they turn in assignments in electronic format, and we make it very well known that we use Turn-It-In to check for plagiarism... and yet it still happens!!!
2006-07-03
09:45:43
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