One student is guilty of plagiarism, the other student is guilty of
cheating. Both should be punished appropriately. I had a case of
identical papers turned in by two students as research papers written for
two different classes last term. One student failed the course for
plagiarism. The other student was given a failing grade on the project
turned in for cheating (in two ways - he not only shared his paper with
another student to turn in as a project in my class (essentially unaltered)
but he was also using a paper that had been written for a different class
as his paper for another class (with no substantive changes to the paper).
(Why a student would believe that the empirical research paper he wrote for
a research methods course would be acceptable for a Child Development
course is beyond my understanding.) My dean tells me we treated the two
students much more gently than faculty in some other departments would have
treated them.
Claudia
>At 15:22 1/31/99 -0500, Lisa Bowleg wrote:
>>Hello Tipsters,
>>
>>Well, it's happened...
>How stupid do they think I am?)this offense is.
>>What's the best route?:
>>
>>1. Write on their papers that this is academic dishonesty and serious, and
>>that they should consider this a one-time only warning?
>>2. Ask them to come and see me together and then talk to them about
>>academic dishonesty?
>>3. Other?
>>
>>
>>
>Well, like many students that I have encountered over the years (especially
>as a young and then new faculty member at a school), they probably are
>trying to see what they can get away from. I would give them option 3.
>Either give credit to whoever did the work and fail the second student, or
>if they can't agree as to who did the work and who copied, fail them both.
>There is no better way to let students know what is acceptable and what is
>not.
>
>Yes, on this issue, I am a hardass.
>
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