For me this is easy because I am at an institution that backs me 100% on such
issues. We file a report with the Dean's office (we have two levels of
dishonesty and yours falls under the more severe form). From then on it's out
of our hands until the consequence. I will be advised what a faculty &
student
panel recommend and based on past experience I am sure I would be advised to
fail the student in the course. I don't have to follow their advice. In
fact, I
have sometimes failed a student just on the assignment, which nearly always
translates to failing the course anyway.
Good luck. It's really a matter of how much administration will back you. If
they back you, I'd say the student has earned an F in the course. I know that
seems harsh, but the degree of dishonesty here was severe as well.
Annette
Quoting DeVolder Carol L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Dear Tipsters,
Could you all share with me what you would do in the case of a
student who basically copied her paper verbatim from several sources?
In other words, the first few sentences are directly lifted from an
internet source, the next few from a journal, a few more from other
journals, and so on. I think maybe a small handful of words are her
own out of a 7-page paper. The course is a 5-week, graduate-level,
1-credit overview of psychopharmacology for occupational therapists.
To my knowledge, I've not had this happen before (or at least I
didn't detect it), and now that my naivete has been shattered, I
wonder how the rest of you would handle it. I plan to consider our
university's stance regarding plagiarism and talk with my dean before
confronting the student, but I'm just curious about how others handle
this kind of situation. Especially since I just spent a good portion
of my Sunday morning looking up her sources (I'm extremely irritated).
Thanks,
Carol
Carol L. DeVolder, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Chair, Department of Psychology
St. Ambrose University
518 West Locust Street
Davenport, Iowa 52803
Phone: 563-333-6482
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web: http://web.sau.edu/psychology/psychfaculty/cdevolder.htm
Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph. D.
Department of Psychology
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110
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