My brother has just plagirised and he is in college. He told me that the teacher told him to talk to the citizenship and community standards director. I am really worried about him. What should he tell to the director? If you've ever been in a situation like this please help!!
2007-03-05 18:52:42 · 5 answers · asked by COBAN 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
If he did that, then the truth needs to be told. Why make up a lie, when you are at that age you are responsable for your own actions. Now if it was a mistake or something he didn't know he should do, then still tell the truth, it maybe hard to make them understand though. But honestly, I think it was purposely done, and he needs to pay for his actions. You wouldn't cover up the actions of someone who robbed your house would you?
2007-03-05 18:58:27 · answer #1 · answered by Twinboymom22 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He should have thought about the consequences before he plagarized. If he really wants to get an education, then he should have been doing his own homework. I am a student at the University of Louisville, and a student at the local community college taking between 5-6 classes a semester, plus raising my daughter and being a housewife, and I have never let stealing someone else's work cross my mind.
He made his bed, now he needs to lie in it. I know I would not like it if someone stole the work that I worked hard on.
2007-03-06 02:58:22 · answer #2 · answered by Baby girl born on 8/29/08!!!!!!! 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you married to your brother?
Copying without citing a reference is a huge infraction of university rules. There are special pieces of software like a popular one called "Turn It In" designed to look through papers and check them thoroughly for copied phrases. Students are warned of this frequently to discourage copying and to discourage buying papers on the Internet, which are sold over and over and are worthless.
He can be dismissed from the school for good. So you should be worried about him. You should also be worried that he thinks he can just buy a paper or copy and paste without doing his own thinking and writing. It's often a one-strike deal so start looking for other schools. If he is a freshman he might be given another chance. If he is a junior or senior he is certainly supposed to know better. College degrees should reflect your own thoughts and hard work, not the temperature of your credit card at "Buy a Thesis.com". It serves him right if he gets the boot.
Have him create a plan to move forward at this school if they let him - tell the standards guy he'll attend sessions of academic integrity, write 2 papers from scratch, and submit everything through Turn It In from this point forward.
Also, make a back-up plan in case they kick him out. The school's position is - if we let you stay, then word gets out you can cheat here and still get a degree, and that we allow cheaters in. Makes us look like crap. So start looking for other schools to attend just in case.
Oh yeah - one more thing - tell him to stop breaking the law and being a lazy asshole and pull his head out of his a s s and do it right from now on.
2007-03-06 05:00:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
First and foremost, he should be honest. If he cheated, then obviously the college staff is knowledgable enough to know what sources were used. Advise him to admit to it, that he was pushed for time and under stress at the time, and to apologize. Then tell him to request another chance at completing a new paper or assignment. I haven't been connected with plagerism, but I've known someone who was dismissed from the US Naval Academy because of wide-spread cheating.
2007-03-06 02:58:39 · answer #4 · answered by gone 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why is this question in Marriage and Divorce instead of homework?
2007-03-06 03:14:27 · answer #5 · answered by rtanys 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋